Creative thinking is a kind of advanced complex thinking to explore the unknown. It is a kind of thinking with its own characteristics and originality. It is the dialectical unity of diffuse thinking and concentrated thinking, the organic combination of creative imagination and realistic orientation, and the unity of opposites between abstract thinking and inspirational thinking.
Creative thinking refers to thinking with initiative and originality. Through creative thinking, we can not only reveal the essence and regularity of objective things, but also produce novel, unique and socially meaningful thinking results on this basis, and open up new fields of human knowledge.
Creative thinking in a broad sense refers to the creative and meaningful thinking activities of the thinking subject, and every normal person has this kind of creative thinking. In a narrow sense, creative thinking refers to the thinking activities of thinking subjects exploring unknown fields, such as inventing, putting forward new assumptions, creating new theories and forming new concepts. This kind of creative thinking is only possessed by a few people.
Creative thinking is developed on the basis of the interaction between abstract thinking and image thinking, which are the basic forms of creative thinking. In addition, it also includes diffusion thinking, centralized thinking, reverse thinking, switch thinking and associative thinking.
The role of creative thinking
Creative thinking has a very important role and significance. First of all, creative thinking can continuously increase the total amount of human knowledge; Secondly, creative thinking can continuously improve people's cognitive ability; Third, creative thinking can open up a new situation for practical activities.
In addition, the success of creative thinking can also encourage people to further creative thinking. As Hua, a famous mathematician in China, said: "The value of' man' lies in his creative thinking."