Types of creative thinking

Abstract

Employees of the Ukrainian Institute of Applied Creatology have developed practical exercises for people of all ages, aimed at developing their creative thinking. Why thinking? Because recent research in the field of creativity has shown that thinking is the foundation of creative activity in any field – in science, art, entrepreneurship, politics, leadership, etc. We distinguish 21 types of thinking. This division of thinking is artificial. People use several types of thinking in their various combinations every day without being aware of the existence of many other types. We bring to your attention our idea of the main ones. Analogical (Associative) Thinking. Analogical (associative) thinking is taking ideas from one context and applying them to another context to produce a new idea (used in music composition, cartoons, science and inventions, literature, movie-making, television, Broadway, architecture, clothes design, etc.). This is the ability to recognize similarities between seemingly dissimilar things, phenomena and situations.