New Thinking: Strategies for becoming Creative

[shivraj]

For expressing your creativity in the best possible way, positive and constructive thinking cannot be overemphasized. Additionally, for being creative, you can adopt a new method of thinking which we call as
re-pre-fine-free thinking.

Re-thinking : Usually we do things as we have always been doing. We have accepted a set of things and we continue with them. But don’t just continue with the old style of thinking and working. Things may have changed since the last time you thought about them and there is always scope for improvement and creativity. Stop and think how you can improve on the existing things, what more and what new can be done. Rethinking will challenge and spark your creativity. It is rethinking that has lead to further developments in science, technology, and every field of life.

Pre-thinking : Think in advance about what and how you want to create. Planning of every aspect will be very helpful. This will prevent any obstacles in the way of completing your creation. Otherwise some things will be left out or ignored and you may not even realize it. This will be detrimental for your creation in the sense that it may get delayed or it may not turn out the way it could have.

Fine thinking : Concentrate on the finer aspects of things. Delve deep into the subject. This will reveal its hidden points, which may be the most important aspects. You can achieve maximum benefit from such thinking. All great spiritual and scientific knowledge has originated from fine thinking. Only fine thinking will help you access the creator within and bring out great ideas and your true creativity.

Free thinking : Free thinking will make you break your limitations in thinking. This is also called 'thinking out of the box'. You will have to come out of your usual frame of thinking and doing things. You will have to shatter all the shackles that restrict your thinking and do not allow you to think new and big. You should consider all the different ways of doing a thing, however ridiculous or impossible they may seem at first. This will lead to new creations and fast development. Free thinking has always been the reason of all new discoveries, inventions and creations.

[Zukin]

Sometimes I try thinking about the opposite of whatever I normally would think. It's one of the best ways I've found to look at something in a new light.

The book Thinkertoys has a lot of good suggestions like this.

There was even an episode of Senfeld about this.

[songwriter]

I'm the most creative person I know. That doesn't means the most creative person there is... lol... only from the ones I know. And I agree with all of the above.... But... I don't agree in making it kind of "rules" or laws. It must be something natural, and you can go against any rule always! if not you're gonna be repetitively creative or so...
Rules to creativity? A method? you would kill it. Creativeness comes from open-mindedness so you can't enclose it to anything (or maybe yes ).

I see that method like "symptoms" of being creative, rather than ways.