Creative thinking requires our brains to make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas. It’s a skill that can be improved.
The famous page describing Newton's apple incident in Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life, by William Stukeley. What most people forget is that Newton worked on his ideas about gravity for nearly twenty years.
“Claiming that ‘I’m just not the creative type’ is a pretty weak excuse for avoiding creative thinking. Certainly, some people are primed to be more creative than others. However, nearly every person is born with some level of creative skill and the majority of our creative thinking abilities are trainable.”
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