Michael Michalko who writes The Creativity Post and offers these 12 things you were not taught in school. Here is the list of aspects of creative thinking you might not have been taught in school and here is Michael’s whole list with specifics.
- You are creative.
- Creative thinking is work.
- You must go through the motions of being creative.
- Your brain is not a computer.
- There is no one right answer.
- Never stop with your first good idea.
- Expect the experts to be negative.
- Trust your instincts.
- There is no such thing as failure.
- You do not see things as they are; you see them as you are.
- Always approach a problem on its own terms.
- Learn to think unconventionally.
Sara Elshamy says
I totally agree with Michael Michalko. School actually killed my creativity. I am an american diploma student. This system depends mainly on the SAT exam. My teachers use to give me and my colleages certain examples and quotations which we can write under any topic with out even thinking or at least brain storm about this prompt. They blocked my mind and made me like a type writer . The whole idea is about memorizing and memorizing . No thinking . No creativity. even in mathematics they made us memorize the steps . However i believe that it is never late . Here i am at Auc taking a course that teaches me how to be creative .