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Developing creativity

SKILL: 4. Working both collaboratively and autonomously

 

EQF LEVEL (INTERNAL REFERENCE):   4

 

Keywords: 

1 Self

2 Analysis

3 Self-esteem

4 Creativity

5 Autonomy

 

Introduction: 

By the end of this LU you will be able to develop your creativity.

Content:

According to Robert E. Franken, creativity is the tendency to generate or recognise ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in problem solving, communication and entertaining. 

To be creative, one needs to be able to view things from a different perspective and generate new possibilities. This is linked to other basic qualities of thinking such as flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity or unpredictability. 

One of the ways in which you can develop your creativity is by collaborating with others and learning from them. When you have enough input, new ideas start appearing.

Here are two techniques that you can use to develop your creativity:

Technique invented by Tony Buzan used to capture all of your thoughts in one place. It helps you organise them all and give direction to your idea. 

Start by writing down your idea and connecting all thoughts related to it with images or words. This will help open your mind.

This is one of the most famous techniques for generating new ideas. It means taking one problem or idea and discussing it in a group. However, there are some rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjYrxcGSWX4 

 

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Language point

 

Read the following sentence.

One of the ways in which you can develop your creativity is by collaborating with others and learning from them

The words in bold are verbs (collaborating & learning) plus a preposition (with & from). The prepositions are known as dependent prepositions, which means that it is the word before the preposition that determines which preposition should follow it, and they are always the same prepositions. A change in preposition may indicate a different meaning to the word.

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