Creative thinking skills use very different approaches to critical thinking skills. They involve a much more relaxed, open, playful approach. This can require some risk-taking. Creative thinking skills involve such approaches as:
◾Looking for many possible answers rather than one.
◾Allowing yourself to make wild and crazy suggestions as well as those that seem sensible.
◾Not judging ideas early in the process - treat all ideas as if they may contain the seeds of something potentially useful.
◾Allowing yourself to doodle, daydream or play with a theory or suggestion.
◾Being aware that these approaches necessarily involve making lots of suggestions that are unworkable and may sound silly.
◾Making mistakes.
◾Learning from what has not worked as well as what did.