“When we talk about thinking, we think that we know what we’re talking about, but there are many different kinds of thinking. When I say people don’t know how to think I mean they haven’t been trained to think in different ways. The simplest distinction is between critical thinking and creative thinking. The most powerful thinkers are able to integrate those two modes. That’s one distinguishing characteristic of great minds: they’re able to look at issues from a critical perspective with logical arguments…No one helps us learn the skill of creative thinking: how to generate new ideas, how to be innovative, how to look at problems from different perspectives, how to get outside of one’s habitual ways of considering issues – then to propose new possibilities.”
Authors: Marcia Conner, Michael Gelb
Source: LiNE Zine
Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development
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Some articles are hard to judge objectively – they just seem to strike you either positively or negatively. This one struck me in a thoroughly positive way – how about you?