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The Creative Thinker's Toolkit

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Overview

Take a penetrating look into the workings of your mind and learn how to develop creative tools that will revolutionize your life, career, and hobbies.

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: The Creative Person-Practice and Passion
  • 02: Lateral Thinking Is a Survival Skill
  • 03: Creative Styles-Adaptors and Innovators
  • 04: Combining Opposites-Diverge, Then Converge
  • 05: Principles for Unleashing Your Imagination
  • 06: Principles for Converging on the Best Ideas
  • 07: Stages of the Creative Process-and You
  • 08: Clarifying the Challenge
  • 09: Clarify Even More-Webbing and Storyboarding
  • 10: Classic Brainstorming and Brainwriting
  • 11: Tools for Enhanced Brainstorming
  • 12: Borrowing and Modifying Ideas
  • 13: Systemic Tools to Generate New Ideas
  • 14: Developing Ideas-Toward Great Solutions
  • 15: Prototypes-How Designers Test Ideas
  • 16: Evaluating Creative Solutions and Making Decisions
  • 17: Giving Ideas Legs-Implementation Planning
  • 18: Persuasion and the Selling of New Ideas
  • 19: Tools for Bringing It All Together
  • 20: Lifting the Emotional Lid on Creativity
  • 21: The Environment-Physical and Psychological
  • 22: Creative Leadership-Regardless of Title
  • 23: Overcoming Blocks and Barriers
  • 24: Living a Creative Life

Taught by

Gerard Puccio

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