Monday, April 22, 2013
Curiosity Curiosity would have to be creative mindset number one. It tops the list because without curiosity, the creative process never really has the raw material it needs.
Openness Quieting the opinions of the judgmental mind long enough to allow the creative mind the time and space it needs to generate interesting insights, associations, or connections.
Embracing Ambiguity This is the capacity to entertain contradictory, ambiguous, or incomplete information. To the creative mindset, contradictions are an invitation to further, more focused creative thought.
Finding and Transferring Principles It's the ability to work from the bottom up, to move from the specific to the general… a facility for abstracting principles or ideas from something specific, and then applying it in a different or more general way to something else.
Searching for Integrity It's the desire to discover – and the belief that there exists – an insight, or connection that will unite the seemingly disparate elements you're juggling in your creative mind into a single integrated, conceptual whole.
Knowingness Know there is an answer, and keep working toward that answer with persistence and an open mind.
World Creating It's the ability to imagine entirely new worlds and everything in them, including the rules that govern those worlds. It even involves role playing roles that you yourself may write.
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