When we think of creative people the names that probably spring to mind are those of men such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, etc.—— a few exceptionally gifted men with67talent and genius.The tendency to regard creativity and68thinking as the exclusive69of a lucky few disregards the creative70inherent in the solution of many of the tasks we regularly have to face——the71anddevelopment of new methods and techniques, the improvement of old methods,72inventions and products.
Everyone has creative ability to some73.Creative thinking74posing oneself a problem and then75or inventing a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves76new analogies, discovering new combinations, and/or new applications of things that are already known. It77, then, that a creative person will78great intellectual curiosity and imagination. He will be alert and observant with a great store of information which he will be able to79out and combine, in the solution of problems. He will be emotionally80to new and unconventional idea sand will be able to communicate uninhibitedly and will not be too81about other peoples reaction to his apparently" crazy" 82. People called the Wright brothers83but it did not stop them84becoming the first men85and fly heavier-than-air86.