12 tools for developing creativity

Internet projects

1. Creativity

How do do-it-yourself, salmon jump, and mental chairs help you develop creative thinking? They talk about this in "Creativiti" - a blog about methods of developing creative thinking and solving creative problems. By the way, it is very easy to determine the methods, since they are grouped according to specific criteria:

By the number of participants: group, single.
By the time until the result is obtained: long, fast.
Difficulty: complex, simple.
By key activities: writing, reading, drawing, singing, walking, and so on.

In addition to methods, the blog has several other headings: applications, interviews, course reviews. In general, everything you need to develop creativity!

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2. MindTools

Being creative, being able to plan time, working in a team, developing emotional intelligence are skills that the modern world requires, and MindTools helps you master them. On the project website, you will find a whole base of tools for developing useful skills. For example, there is reverse brainstorming to develop creative thinking. Its essence lies in the fact that first we look for the worst solutions to a problem, and then we transform bad ideas into good solutions.

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3.4Brain

The project helps to develop the competencies necessary for a modern person - good memory, fast reading, oratory - with the help of trainings, cases, games. And the coolest thing is that there is a whole section on the development of creative thinking: TRIZ, mental maps, the six hats method, and that's all.

Six Thinking Hats is a role-playing game that helps overcome three major obstacles associated with practical thinking: emotion, helplessness, confusion. With the help of the method, we divide our thinking into six types, or modes, each of which has a “hat” attached, and putting it on, a person turns on this mode.

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Telegram channels

4. Creativity 101

Telegram channel from the author of the "Creative" blog. Here he is in touch every day and advises books, films, lectures, talks about interesting creative methodologies (TRIZ, CRAFT, lateral thinking, design thinking) and tools.

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5. THREE

TRIZ is a full-fledged science of the development of creative thinking by solving a contradiction, with its own subtleties, difficulties, terms. There is a lot of information in the public domain, from which it can be difficult to single out the main thing and understand how using some method, for example, to cook soup without water or pizza without dough. The author provides systematized information without further ado.

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6. TRIZ. Creation. Tasks

And this channel differs from the previous one in that here, in addition to laws and methods, there are many tasks. Let there be practice, friends!

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Applications

7. Brainsparker

For those who thought for a long time and came to a dead end. Associative cards with random words, quotes and pictures will help to look at the problem from a different angle. How it works? You formulate a question, randomly pull a card with a tip from a set, get an impulse for thought.

8. Inspiration Maps

Helps to sort all your thoughts on the shelves using mind maps. In the application, you can create an unlimited number of graphs, charts, maps, to which you can attach notes, audio, add hyperlinks and much more. All this helps to present our map in more detail, it becomes understandable. This method can be used during brainstorming sessions.

Books

9. "CRAFT: How to Create Big Ideas" by Vasily Lebedev

Helps to rethink the usual forms of social interaction between people and create new ones. For example, come up with a concept for a park, school, or your startup - whatever.

10. “Lateral Marketing. Search technology for revolutionary ideas "Philip Kotler

The book is about developing out-of-the-box thinking for business.

I woke up and it wasn't me? Brushed your teeth and then brushed my teeth? Lateral thinking is not only fun but also very rewarding. In this book, you will find a detailed guide to implementing lateral marketing in your company's practice.

11. “Find an idea. Introduction to TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving”by Heinrich Altshuller

What if the door needs to be open and closed at the same time? You can't do without TRIZ. TRIZ is a theory of the development of creative thinking by solving contradictions.

Source of inspiration

12. Coloribus

If you need to find an archived video that is definitely not on YouTube. The largest online collection of creative advertising materials from around the world.

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That's all! Remember: everyone can invent, it is only important to constantly train your creative muscle and expand your horizons.