Principles of creativity

Creativity is more than tools and techniques. This pages links to descriptions of critical principles about being creative.

• Creative Problems: Defining creative problems and solutions.
• Diffusion: Spreading ideas through social networks.
• Divergence and convergence: Staying open and staying focused.
• Exploration: Going where no one has gone before.
• Forced association: Banging things together to create new things.
• Ground Rules: Shared rules that enable safe creativity.
• Jumping: Jumping to new idea domains.
• Practice!: Build you 'creative muscle' with regular practice.
• Questioning: Asking things to get the mind going.
• TRIZ 40 Principles: Principles that have been used to gain many patents.
• Stimulation: Prodding your subconscious into giving you new thoughts.
• Use What Works: There are many tools, so use what works for you.