Creative Thinking

Creative thinking refers to the thinking activity that can solve problems with new methods and produce novel and valuable results. Creative thinking is a manifestation of creativity and a high-level cognitive activity. Its basic feature is novelty, which is manifested as breaking the traditional way of problem solving, reintegrating past experience, and proposing new ways to solve problems. Creative thinking is prominently manifested in activities such as scientific discovery and invention, and literary and artistic creation.

Creative thinking is generally divided into four stages: (1) Preparation, during which all kinds of data and information is collected and studied, and the problem is analyzed in depth and explored in multiple aspects in order to solve it with efforts. (2) Incubation, during which the problem and a solution to which is unlikely for the moment is put on hold, and we shift our attention to other activities while continuing to think about and process the problem...