A large part of what we do has to do with being critical and creative thinkers. We focus on the characteristics of different types of critical and creative thinking: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, originality, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, risk taking, complexity, curiosity, and imagination. Today we focused on three of these characteristics:
Flexibility results in many different kinds of ideas. The purpose of flexible thinking is to generate and promote responses that deviate from normal thought patterns.
Elaboration is the creative thinking behavior that results in adding to or embellishing an idea. It is the ability to add details, fill in the gaps, build a group of related ideas and expand ideas.
Originality is the creative thinking behavior that produces new or novel responses. Originality is often the by product of other creative thinking behavior. Most of all today we discussed how creativity can simply mean looking at the ordinary and seeing the extraordinary.
