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Why Use a Creative Thinking Technique?
For the same reason you sometimes jump start your car
If you have ever jump started your car in the winter with a pair of jumper cables you already know why it makes sense to use a creative thinking technique – to spark your ability to arrive at your preferred destination.
Sometimes to get you moving a catalyst is needed — a jiggle, jolt or jump start— and that’s where creative thinking techniques come in.
All of us, no matter where we live and what we do for a living, are creative. We are. It’s built in. That’s the good news.
The problem for many of us is that our creativity peaked when we were five years old. Since then, it’s been a slow and steady decline into conformity and conventionality.
Bottom line, our innate creativity has all-too-often gotten buried, neglected, and ignored. Like a car engine in winter, it sometimes goes cold. So cold, in fact, that we can’t figure out how to get it started again.
That’s where creative thinking techniques come in.
