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Creative Thinking
Creative thinking involves creativity, which involves putting the old together in new ways in a metaphorical process. Brainstorming and starbursting can boost creativity. Brainstorming involves allowing the mind to flow from one thought to another thought, in which each idea stimulates another idea. Evaluation and censorship of the ideas is inapplicable allowing the mind to create ideas that would not normally be thought because of boundaries. Starbursting is focusing on a topic and that radiates outwards with questions. Occasionally creative thinking does not come very easily to a person and to coax the creativity process the following steps assist with this inadequacy. Step 1: Desire, Step 2: Knowledge and Skills, Step 3: Edisonian Effort, Step 4: Fermentation and Insight, and Step 5: Evaluation (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007, pp. 130-136).
Logical Thinking
Logic is a skill used every day by everyone at some level. Logical thinking is a learned mental process and is critical to making sound decisions and solving complex problems. Logical thinking requires one to use consistently reasoning to reach a conclusion. A person has the capability of digging deep into his or her mind to derive a better understanding of the methods required to resolve problems. Logical thinking involves either inductive or deductive reasoning.
Inductive reasoning pertains to deriving a conclusion from evidence or observations. As these observations are subject to challenge, false conclusions become a possibility but not necessarily a probability. Deductive reasoning, on the other hand, does not provide false conclusions because if the premise is true the conclusion will always be true to a certainty. Conclusions of good inductive reasoning are highly probable; however, they are never certain (Paul & Elder, 2006).
Persuasive Thinking
Persuasive thinking involves guiding others to accept a point of view different from their own. Certain external...