the belief they are creative
90% of being creative is thinking you are, and with that comes the confidence that you'll come up with the right answer to the problem trying to solve
creative thinkers is exposing themselves to new experiences , different viewpoints and be ready
Example: Baseball player, Branch Rickey, said, "To succeed, preparation has to meet opportunity." Will you be ready when opportunity knocks? You will be if you're expanding your brain power by experiencing as many new things as possible.
flexible in their thinking even when they don't have to be
abandon traditional ways of viewing things and start thinking in a different path
The brain is divided into two halves, or hemispheres, that are joined by a bundle of fibres called the corpus callosum
the smaller the corpus callous the benefits the incubation of ideas that are critical for the divergent-thinking component of creativity.
the dna plays a big role
These genes reduce inhibition of emotions and memory, meaning that more information reaches the level of consciousness.
increase connectivity
related to the connectivity of large-scale brain networks,
serotonin increases connectivity in one of its most important "hubs" – an area called the posterior cingulate cortex.
Examples
Nobel Prize winner, Albert Georgyi, the man who discovered vitamin C, offered this answer, “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Frank Baum, wrote in the Scarecrow of Oz, “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” So, how do we stop looking at everything around us in the same way that we always have?
Key to creativity:is to begin looking at those things in different ways and get a another perspective
To answer comes from understanding that the essence of creativity is all about solving problems or satisfying needs
Sometimes that is as simple as this ancient observation by the philosopher Plato, “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
Example: Brainstorm
the answer you are looking for will pop into your head when you least expect it
Example: Albert Einstein came up with E=MC2 in a dream.