The Creative Thinker's Toolkit

Take a penetrating look into the workings of your mind and learn how to develop creative tools that will revolutionize your life, career, and hobbies.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Creative Person-Practice and Passion
• 02: Lateral Thinking Is a Survival Skill
• 03: Creative Styles-Adaptors and Innovators
• 04: Combining Opposites-Diverge, Then Converge
• 05: Principles for Unleashing Your Imagination
• 06: Principles for Converging on the Best Ideas
• 07: Stages of the Creative Process-and You
• 08: Clarifying the Challenge
• 09: Clarify Even More-Webbing and Storyboarding
• 10: Classic Brainstorming and Brainwriting
• 11: Tools for Enhanced Brainstorming
• 12: Borrowing and Modifying Ideas
• 13: Systemic Tools to Generate New Ideas
• 14: Developing Ideas-Toward Great Solutions
• 15: Prototypes-How Designers Test Ideas
• 16: Evaluating Creative Solutions and Making Decisions
• 17: Giving Ideas Legs-Implementation Planning
• 18: Persuasion and the Selling of New Ideas
• 19: Tools for Bringing It All Together
• 20: Lifting the Emotional Lid on Creativity
• 21: The Environment-Physical and Psychological
• 22: Creative Leadership-Regardless of Title
• 23: Overcoming Blocks and Barriers
• 24: Living a Creative Life