Session 11 Exploring Your Personal Critical and Creative Thinking Skills.pdf

Gopi Muthuraman
MAPS GEN L6-001
Critical Thinking
Gopi Muthuraman
Session 11
Exploring Your Personal Critical and Creative Thinking Skills

Gopi Muthuraman
Exploring Your Personal Critical
and Creative Thinking Skills
Agenda?
➢ Improving our Creative Thinking Skills
➢ Improving our Critical Thinking skills

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CREATIVITY
THINKING
SKILLS
➢ Always ask: “Is there a better way?”
➢ Challenge custom, routine, and tradition.
➢ Are reflective.
➢ Are prolific thinkers.
➢ Play mental games.
Right-Brained, Creative Thinkers

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CREATIVITY
THINKING
SKILLS
➢ Realize that there may be more than one “right”
answer.
➢ Know that mistakes are pit stops on the way to
success.
➢ Recognize that problems are springboards for
new ideas.

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CREATIVITY
THINKING
SKILLS
➢ Understand that failure is a natural part of the
creative process.
➢ Have “helicopter skills.”
➢ Relate seemingly unrelated ideas to a problem.

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CREATIVITY
Barriers to
Creativity
➢ Searching for the one “right” answer
➢ Focusing on “being logical”
➢ Blindly following the rules
➢ Constantly being practical
➢ Viewing play as frivolous