Outside The Box...

To cope with everyday life people tend to find the need for thinking creatively. It's a process that enables us to turn new imaginative ideas into reality in order to solve problems, produce works of art and unveil endless paths to a new life. The phenomena of creativity can be defined in many ways given the fact that different people perceive it in different ways. Regardless of the various definitions that were given, the core concept mainly lies on the natural instinctual desire that generates within human beings. Therefore, one could not possibly say he/she is not creative, when creativity is something more like a calm water surface, which you might want to stir a bit to see the glamorous shimmering patterns caused by the reflection.

One's creativity is enhanced only when it is used regularly. The more you tend to use it the more you train your self to look at things in different perspectives. The things we see around us are results of creative thinking that was, in most cases, initiated by combining old concepts and observations. Hence, our creativity is based on what already being created or at least thought of creating in the future.

Thinking inside a specific frame deprives you of endless streaks of thoughts, as you restrict your thinking into some extent. That explains why children have a great tendency of showing a wide range of thoughts and imaginations through their creative expressions, which happen to be simply amusing. In the creative thinking process it is advisable to avoid following a certain criteria or guidelines, in order to discover the portal to a higher realm of conception.

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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes