Creative thinking skillsCreative thinking skills use very different approaches to critical thinkingskills. They involve a much more relaxed, open, playful approach. This canrequire some risk-taking. Creative thinking skills involve such approaches as:Looking for many possible answers rather than one.Allowing yourself to make wild and crazy suggestions as well as thosethat seem sensible.Not judging ideas early in the process - treat all ideas as if they maycontain the seeds of something potentially useful.Allowing yourself to doodle, daydream or play with a theory orsuggestion.Being aware that these approaches necessarily involve making lots ofsuggestions that are unworkable and may sound silly.Making mistakes.Learning from what has not worked as well as what did.In this section, you can learn more about the processes and what creativethinking really involves:A state of mindCreative thinking skills are as much about attitude and self-confidence as