Question

Name a few factors that are commonly believed to be necessary for creative thinking to occur. Which do you perceive of as relatively more important and which do you believe are not necessary? Why?

Answer 1

Creative thinking is regerred to the ability of an individual to think of novel ideas. They generally stem from the old experiences and ideas. This indicates that they are adjustable and hence they are not inherited but we cannot say that inheritance doesnt have anything to do with it. Rather they can be inherited in some ammount and then improved and adjusted as well as maintained and enhanced totally by the experiences of the individual. Hence experiences is the foremost and the most important feature of creative thinking. As mentioned earlier creative thoughts are the new thoughts generated from the old ones. Hence, being creative would require a lot of experiences and the more the experiences the more old thoughts to change and adapt into new ones and hence nore the creativity in a person. Another important aspect of creativity is the fearlessness as the fear limits ones capacities. If a person fears of the success of an idea then the worry takes over the process and the potential cannot be achieved. Hence the person can only try to experiment new ideas if he is fearless. Another factor of creativity is the desire to be creative. It stands for ones will to be creative. If a person wants to be creative them only he can be creative. Although this is given the least importance but it is a crucial factor in creative thinking. This is so because it motivates a person and initiates the creative thinking process. If it is absent the person would never try to be creative and the process wont start. Hence according to me it is the most important factor. The last factor of creativity is interactions with the environment. This is the least important factor according to me. It stands for the environment and our interactions with it while growing up. According to me these can be manipulated and thoughts regarding it can be changed. Also it has little effect on creativity as the old experiences are just a base of the new thoughts so the important fact is that we should have some old experiences and not that they should result from good interactions only. Even poor interactions will give us an experience and will help us