LIVING MORE CREATIVELY

To live a creative life requires creative thinking.
Creative Thinkers Rule The World.
Thinking - everybody on the planet earth thinks;
it differs from one individual to the other.

What is Creative Thinking?

It involves a skilful thought and imagination that can offer solution to a critical challenge or problem.
Creative Thinking therefore is having a particular idea that has the propensity to solve complex problems. There are a plethora of complex challenges in our world today begging for solution.

According to Henry Ford, "thinking is the hardest work there is, which probably is the reason why so few engage in it".
Rightly so, giving the few inventors the world over.

TECHNOLOGY

In today's world, technology which evolved out of Creative thinking, has changed the cause of nature in many ways.
For instance, before the advent of aircraft, nobody could imagine that there would be a device that can defy the law of gravity. Creative thinking made it possible through the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur. Air travel is made possible, that in few hours you can move from one continent to the other.
Air travel solved the problem of several days, weeks and sometimes months of agonising long distant journeys.
There are many other inventions which is made possible through technological means and advancement, too many to mention in this write up.

CRYPTOCURRENCY EVOLUTION

The Crypto Ecosystem evolved through the technological means (Algorithm) beginning with Bitcoin in 2008, though officially launched in 2009. Now over 800 other cryptocurrencies are in circulation and more are in the offing.
This has proffered solution to the lingering problems associated with fiat money system.

STEEMIT

Steemit is one, and it is growing fast and with a unique concept and features.
We in this community must, of necessity, think creatively to bring about its faster development, wider spread, usage and sustainability.

HOW TO THINK CREATIVELY

The first step is to have a general thinking strategy. Perhaps, this is the most valuable HEURISTIC of all.
The five classic formulation steps are:

1. Identify
2. Define
3. Explore
4. Act
5. Look and Learn
   To apply these ideal steps or thinking strategy, you should identify the problem, define it clearly, then explore the possible solution and relevant knowledge. Next, you must act by trying a possible solution or hypothesis and finally, you should look at the results and learn from them.
   However, each attempted solution may identify further subproblems. This again must be tackled with the ideal steps until a final satisfactory solution is found.

Below are the five Stages in Creative Thinking
i. Orientation. At this first stage, the thinker
must identify and define the most important
dimension of the problem.
ii. Preparation. This second stage requires the
creative thinker to saturate himself as
much as possible with information about the
problem.

III. Incubation. As most major problem
produce a period during which all
attempted solutions become futile, at this
point, problem solving may proceed on
subconscious level. Though it may appear to
have been set aside, but it will still be Boiling
in the background.
iv. Illumination. The incubation stage is
usually ended by rapid INSGIHT or series of
them.
These produce the Exciting Experience
which often appears in the thinkers head as
a light bulb

v. Verification. As this step is to test and
critically evaluate the solution obtained
during the Illumination stage, if the solution
proves faulty, the thinker reverts to the stage
of Incubation. (Dennis Coin, John O.
Mitterer, Wadsworth, 2007)

INSIGHT

Insights are usually based on recognizing or identifying a problem. This allows for seeing problems in New ways and makes their solutions seem obvious. (Durso, Rea & Dayton, 1994).
A thinker who would suddenly solves a problem has Experienced Insight (Schilling, 2005).

NATURE OF INSIGHT

Insight involves three dimensions viz:
a) Selective Encoding - this refers to selecting
information that is relevant to a problem
while ignoring distractions.
b) Selective Combination - this is bringing
together seemingly unrelated bits of
information.
c) Selective Comparison - the ability to compare
new problems with the old information or
with the problems already solved.

CONCLUSION

Living more creatively will open door to intelligent, successful and fulfilling life, and will add spice to life and exciting Personal Insights.

The following recommendations are useful to becoming more creative:

1.find something that surprises you everyday

1. try to surprise at least one person everyday
2. if something sparks your interest follow it
3. make a commitment to doing things well
4. take time for thinking and relaxing
5. seek challenges
6. try to look at problems from as many view
   points as you can
7. try doings more of what you enjoy and less
   of what you dislike
   Finally, even if you don't become more creative by following these suggestions, they are still good advice. Life is not a standardized test with a single set of correct answers. See it much more as a blank canvas on which you can create designs that uniquely express your talents and interests.
   To live more creatively you must seek new ways of doing things. Try to surprise at least one person today - yourself, if no one else.