This document discusses creativity, critical thinking vs creative thinking, and mind mapping. It defines creativity as producing something new through restructuring thoughts. Critical thinking is clear, rational analysis to form judgments, while creative thinking is more generative and looks for possibilities. Mind mapping is a visual way to represent hierarchical relationships between a central topic and related ideas. It uses images, colors and branches to show connections between different points.

1. Creativity
Critical Thinking Vs Creative Thinking
Mind Mapping
Prepared By:
Mohammed Jasir Pv
Asst. Professor
MIIMS, Puthanathani
Contact: 9605 69 32 66

2. TOPICS
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▰ Creativity
▰ Critical Thinking Vs Creative Thinking,
▰ Mind Mapping

3. CREATIVITY
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4. CREATIVITY
▰ Creativity has been defined as the skill of being able to
produce something new. It could be an idea, a concept, a
process or a solution to a specific problem having some value.
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• This takes place by the restructuring of our thoughts to allow
novel points to view about a subject or situation.
“Creativity is with every one”

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Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun
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Need for Creativity in 21st Century ????
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7. ▰Transformational creativity
: deepest kind of creativity
where new ideas arise emerge
by radically changing the
structured concepts
themselves eg – Albert
Einstein’s study theory of
relativity put an unlikely spin
on the study of physics
Types of Creativity
▰Combinational
creativity : already
known ideas are
combined in new and
different ways to
develop new
concepts Eg – making
of collage, poetry etc
▰Exploratory
creativity : new
ideas are new ideas
are generated by
exploring different
ways for the first
time. Eg – first
mobile phone,
televisions when
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▰According to Margaret Boden creativity has to be of three types

8. THINKING..
“the process of considering or reasoning about something.”
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9. “ Convergent thinking
&
Divergent Thinking
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10. Convergent Thinking
 Ability of a person to arrive at a single and most suitable
and often correct answer to a question.
 The questions are usually well defined and do not include
much creativity
 Eg. How many days are there in a weak
 What is the answer for 23*34*44*26*23
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12. Divergent Thinking
▰ Divergent thinking is the opposite of convergent thinking. This thought
process works by generating many different solutions for a problem. The
thought pattern is non linear and spontaneous and this lead to creativity
▰ Eg. how water can be converted to blood so that no body will have to
donate blood
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15. HELLO!
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17. Sources of Creativity
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18. Sources of Creativity
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Sources
of
Creativity
Knowledge
Motivation
Creative
Thinking
skills

19. Creative thinkers are
▰ Not afraid to think new ideas
▰ Do not afraid constructive criticisms
▰ Patient enough to persist through failures
▰ Capable of combining knowledge into unrelated areas
▰ Interested in synergy
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20. “ Experience, Intuition
&
imagination.
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Experience knowledge Creativity

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• Experience is the source from which we acquire knowledge.
Openness to experience play key role in developing creative ideas
• Intuition: is the ability to know something with out using any reasoning or rational
thought.
We may not be aware of our intuition abilities
All our experiences will be stored in our sub conscious mind
When ever we face a question, the experiences in our sub conscious mind
connects to those experiences and will come up with some solutions.
• Imagination is the ability to see the impossible or the unreal
Creative works always rely upon imagination
Imagination requires little actual knowledge and theydevelop new ideas
based on these knowledge.
‘Imagination knows no bounds’

23. Critical thinking
V/S
Creative thinking 23
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24. Critical thinking
 Critical thinking is clear, rational and disciplined thinking where the thinker is
open to recognizing and realizing the efficiency of his thought processes by
reflecting them and recognizing the errors and biases that may be present.
 Critical thinkers use a group of interconnected skills to analyze, unify and
evaluate what is heard, seen or read by them.
 The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a
judgement.
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Essential critical thinking skills are :
• Ability to find out the central problem
• Identifying relevant data from irrelevant data
• Identifying whether a source is credible or not
• Spotting un certain claims or arguments
• Detecting biases
• Identifying logical mismatches
• Recognizing errors in the line of reasoning
• Assessing the strength of an argument

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Critical thinking V/s Creative thinking
•Mostly linear
•Selective
•Works by elimination
•Converges towards single
answer
•Looks for correct answer
•Remains objective and
logical
•Often non linear
•Generative, generates new
possibilities
•Moves away from a single
answer
•Looks for possibilities
•Suspends judgment

27. Mind mapping
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28. Mind mapping
▰ Mind mapping is a means of pictorially representing information
and exploring new ideas and concepts.
▰ It represents the hierarchy and inter relationships of ideas in the
form of a picture or networks.
▰ This is a kind of spider diagram that “maps” information.
▰ Developed by Tony Buzan in 1970s
▰ Has a central theme which is written predominantly or drawn as
an image in the centre of a blank page
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• Major ideas related to the theme are represented in the form of pictures, codes or
words placed around the central idea.
• Each major idea branches into smaller ideas, themes or facts that are grouped and
placed in a branched hierarchical structure.
• Connecting lines, arrows and other useful indicators are used to show the
connection between different points.
• Colours, images, codes etc are used to express everything
• This helps to have a full view on the different aspects of the subject

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