Practical Creativity

Practical Creativity is Serious Creativity

How to be seriously creative

A background to the mechanics and some of the tools of serious creativity is here on my site. First, what creativity is not. (Then, further down the page, for what serious creativity is.)

It's not:

1. Religious or mystical in nature
2. A deep philosophy or complex physics
3. A system based on chance
4. Illogical
5. Requiring high intelligence
6. Specially for creative people
7. Needing special talent
8. For artists only
9. For a select group
10. It's not difficult!

What is "Serious Creativity"?

It is:

1. A skill that can be learned
2. A sort of provocative type of thinking
3. An essential supplement to traditional logical thinking
4. A skill that improves with practice
5. Useful in business, education, and social life
6. A generator of new ideas (and helps escape rigid thinking)
7. Based on the way the brain works (as a self-organising system)
8. A way of escaping routines
9. A way of advancing self-esteem and confidence
10. A way of improving intelligence

In ordinary thinking, experiences set up routines.

With serious creativity, we set up provocations, movement
techniques, and other tools of lateral thinking (red blobs
in the above picture). One of these methods has generated
a new idea (gold star). This new idea can then be further
refined and developed with the more advanced methods of
lateral thinking.

Dennis R Perrin is an accredited trainer in lateral thinking, the basis of "Serious Creativity" by
Dr Edward de Bono.
Training is available.