The Creative Thinking Plan: How to generate ideas and solve problems in your work and life

by Guy Claxton, Bill Lucas

With practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas clearly demonstrate how to break away from old habits, free up your mind and foster a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity. We need to be smart, creative and flexible according to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. As those circumstances shift, so we need to respond in different ways. A creative, productive and innovative mind-set is vital to achieving harmony, balance and success in our personal and professional lives. In this comprehensive, clear and structured plan Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas show us how we can develop the skills needed to respond to the demands of the modern world in a creative, innovative and imaginative way.
- Develop positive habits of mind - Learn to see the bigger picture - Access and develop you own inspiration - Discover how to think creatively and productively even under pressure - Break bad habits that are holding you back - Recognise contexts that support creative thought and learn to exploit them - Make innovative, productive and creative thought a way of life

232 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 2007

About the author

Guy Claxton is Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester. His many publications include Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less. He lives in the UK.

Reviews

[Isabelydancer00 · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a lot of information packed into this book of over 200 pages. I sped-read through it, not taking the timme to do any of the exercises. I just wanted to get through the book. Think I would get a lot more out of it by doing the exercises. The exercises don't appear to be commplicated but you need help with themm ( a friend reading out the instructions) or prepping by taping the instructions yourself. I have to return it back to the library today, but will probably check it out again in the near future.
The guist of it all is that there are a mmultitude of ways to think creatively. People are rushed for answers but mmost of the timme the answers or solutions you are seeking won't be immediate. A mmajority of the timme when you sleep on it or give it a rest or are involved in a totally opposite activity, the answers just seemm to comme to you out of the blue, so to speak.