Think Creative

OK, I am starting this blog with one of my favourite DeBono puzzles. What you have to do is to divide the shape into four equal size and equal shaped pieces, and fit them into the 'L' shape exactly. They have to be the same volume and the the same shape. OK. I give this puzzle to my students and many of them cannot achieve it. This is mainly because of the structure of most peoples thinking processes. Through education you are taught to see simple shapes; square, rectangle, triangle, etc. This can be useful and efficient for the brain, but when 'creativity' is brought into play, then the aspects of a streamline brain are detrimental to the puzzle solving aims of the task at hand. This is also a reason why the process of design is becoming more and more simplistic and less clever, because a great deal of designers are not being challenged to think during their educational process. Try the puzzle an think more in future postings.

Thinking is a natural part of life. The development of a human being is in all intense a purposes like that of an animal. The only real fundamental difference in the mind of an animal and a human animal is the process of reason. (*mention something about problem solving) By this function we have the ability to take information and to process it and to use it for a purpose. Thinking basically is this method. The inability not to think is a simple value attributed to the fact that your brain doesn’t have enough stimulus in order for it to clearly determine a correct course of action for the necessary and correct outcome. In other more simple words, if you see the process of problem solving and thinking as a journey across a river then the opposite bank of the river is the answer. Now, firstly, depending on the creativity of your mind the river bank can either have many places to land after crossing or be limited to one spot. This is the conclusion although, so to get there we must find...