Creative Thinkers

Do you possess any of the qualities of the most creative thinkers? The more you do of what you're doing, the more you'll get of what you've got. Creative thinking requires that you continually dig deep into yourself and generate more newer, better, faster, cheaper and different ideas that you can use to improve the important parts of your life. There are different qualities of creative thinkers, when you practice one or more of these qualities you begin to prove to yourself that you are truly a genius and you simultaneously disprove the negative hypothesis.

#1 They are intensely curious

They are always asking questions. They ask questions like why very much like children do all the time then they ask why not, why can't we do it even if it hasn't been done before can it be done.

#2 They practice zero based thinking all the time

They continually ask themselves if I were not now doing what I'm doing, knowing what I now know, would I start? And if the answer is no they cut their losses, discontinue what they are doing and start doing something else. It is absolutely amazing how many people persist in something that they wouldn't even get into if they had to do it over again and they wonder why they're making so little progress.

#3 They have a willingness to change

They recognize that in a world such as ours, the unwillingness or inability to change is fatal. They prefer to be in charge of their lives rather than being caught up in the flash flood of change that is inevitable and unavoidable. The words of the truly flexible person the person who is willing to change are simply I change my mind. You must be willing to change your mind and try something else most of the time. Mental flexibility is the most important quality that you will need for success in this century.

#4 Willingness to admit that they are wrong

80% of people burn up most of their mental and emotional energy defending against admitting that they made a wrong decision. Don't let this happen to you. Truly intelligent, highly, creative people are open-minded, fluid flexible and willing to both change their mind and admit that they are wrong when their earlier decisions turn out to be incorrec.

#5 They can say I don't know

They recognize that it is impossible for anyone to know anything about everything. That it is very likely that almost everyone is wrong to some extent no matter what they're doing. So when someone asks them a particular question that they don't know the answer to, they admit it early and often they simply say I don't know. And if necessary, they go about finding the answer. No matter what problems you have, there's someone, somewhere who had the same problem and who has already solved that problem and is using that solution today. One of the smartest and most creative things you can do is to find someone else somewhere who is already implementing the solutions successfully and then copy him or her. The smartest person is not necessarily the person who comes up with the idea. It may just be a lucky flash of insight. The smartest person is the one who copies and improves the idea first and it is often the person to recognize the value of the new idea that makes a fortune from the idea while the originator makes little or nothing

#6 They are intensely goal focused

They know exactly what they want. They have it written down very clearly, they visualize it on a regular basis, they imagine what their goal would look like if it were a reality today and the more they visualize and imagine their goal as a reality the more creative they become and the faster they move towards achieving it.

#7 They have less ego involvement in being right

They are more concerned with what's right rather than who's right. They are willing to accept ideas from any source to achieve a goal, overcome an obstacle or solve a problem. The most important part of creative thinking is your ability to generate ideas and the greater the quantity of ideas you generate, the greater the quality your ideas will be. The more ideas you have, the more likely you are to have the right idea at the right time.

Thomas Edison once wrote "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." Your ability to come up with an idea to test it and validate it and then to implement it through creative thinking and execute it in your life to achieve results is the true mark of a genius. Every single time you originate a new idea, write it down, make a plan for its implementation and then take action. You are behaving like a genius and the more you manage your creativity this way the smarter you will become and the smarter you become the more you will achieve in every area of your life. Your future will become unlimited.