needs to study hard for it. S/he will have to choose between two options, practising for badminton or studying for the final examination. In this situation her/his decision will be based upon evaluation of all possible outcomes. You would observe that people differ in their priorities and therefore their decisions will differ.
In real life situations we take quick decisions and therefore, it is not possible always to evaluate every situation thoroughly and exhaustively. N ATURE AND P ROCESS OF C REATIVE T HINKING You might have wondered at times how some one for the first time, thought of acts like planting a seed, or devising a wheel, or decorating the walls of caves with drawings, etc. Perhaps not satisfied with the old ways of carrying out day-to-day activities, such persons thought of something original. There are countless others whose creativity has led to the present day scientific and technological progress that we now enjoy.
Music, painting, poetry, and other forms of art that give us pleasure and joy, are all products of creative thinking. You might have heard about A.D. Karve, a botanist from our country, who got the UK’s top energy award for devising a smokeless ‘Chullah’. He converted dry, useless sugarcane leaves into clean fuel.
You might have also heard of Class XI student Ashish Panwar, who won a bronze medal for assembling a five feet tall robot at the First International Robotics Olympiad held at Glasgow. These are only a few examples of creativity. Try to think of some other examples of creativity in different fields. It is important to remember that creative thinking is not always expressed in extraordinary work.
One does not have to be a scientist or an artist to be a creative thinker. Everyone has the potential to be creative. Creative thinking can be applied in almost any area of human activity at different levels. It could be reflected in activities like writing, teaching, cooking, enacting roles, story telling, conversation, dialogues, asking questions, playing games, trying to solve day-to-day problems, organising activities, helping others resolve conflicts, and so on.
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