Think Creative

We live in the culture that is saturated with information so putting your message through requires lots of effort and creativity. The easiest way to be spotted in the information clutter is to be different. And being different is often erroneously labelled as being creative. One of the most important characteristics of successful thinkers is their ability to focus. How many times has it happened to you that you spent some time and energy thinking about something and you ended up with a bunch of interesting ideas on all other problems except on the one that you had actually been required to think about? This will happen every time unless you manage to maintain a clear focus on the subject that you are thinking about. The world is full of so called artists and creatives who are struggling to be different and unique. They are sometimes strangely odd and bizarre in their appearance, behaviour and attitudes without firm arguments that could back up their extremely different views...

OK, so you were inspired and you managed to think of a dozen new and brilliant ideas on how to run your personal business, or how to deal with some situation that you are having, but you are unsure which one of these ideas is best for you.  Maybe you got lucky and you embarked upon THE idea and you have absolutely no doubt in your mind that that the future is looking bright for you, but hey – how do you know your brilliant idea is feasible in real life?  Or maybe someone, your employee or your best friend, has come to you with an idea of their own and is asking you for the opinion and advice. How will you be able to judge/estimate their idea? How will you develop the criteria for your critical thinking? We all create ideas - some do it more easily than others, some more often than others - but we all get in the situation where we have to make choice between several ideas and options and then we get stuck because we do not know how to go round them and select the bes...