Thinklum Creativity and Thinking for Kids

Lets look around us. We will soon face resources crisis, climate crisis, worldwide boredom crisis. Lets be honest we are facing the biggest challenges as we are stuck. Human progress is slowing down.

Lets think of creativity as our ability to see the future. More of it is the ability to see something that we have not seen before. This is how many inventions were made and breakthroughs done by humankind – through creative thinking abilities.

Our brain has specials regions allowing to our mind to wander and moving into some directions combining objects from the knowledge or the past and create or generate some new ideas or objects. That’s how in simple words a creative thinking looks like.

When someone asks you about creativity, the first association to come into your mind would probably be the arts. It’s mainly because we think of people who create poems, dance, paintings or films as creative.

However, lets think of the following example. A child solved the mathematical problem in differently and we say a kid is creative. So, actually we may measure and think of creativity as of uncommon uses for common objects. Many researches show creativity is connected to the ability of a person to overcome the distraction and “stickiness” of prior knowledge.