Watch The Creative Thinker’s Toolkit

2023
1 Season

This eye-opening course will challenge your beliefs about creativity and provide penetrating insights into the workings of your mind, allowing you to develop creative tools that will revolutionize your life, career, and hobbies. Learn what it means to “think outside the box.”

The Creative Thinker’s Toolkit is a series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (24 episodes). The series first aired on November 1, 2023.

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Seasons

24. Living a Creative Life

November 1, 2023

Finish the course with a capstone look at how one can live creatively as well as think creatively. Some of the inspirational principles of a creative life that you'll look at include reclaiming your creativity, going big or going home, creating multiple options for yourself, and suspending disbelief in order to live and practice a more creative approach to every aspect of your life.

23. Overcoming Blocks and Barriers

November 1, 2023

There are many internal and external barriers out there that can inhibit us from effective creative thinking. But you don't have to let these physical and perceptual blocks and habits deter you. Instead, learn how to overcome them with research-backed strategies that involve deferring judgment, defocusing, and distancing.

22. Creative Leadership - Regardless of Title

November 1, 2023

Today's complex world demands more creative leaders. First, explore how evolving theories of leadership have started to embrace the importance of creativity. Then, look at why leadership itself is so crucial to the creative process. Finally, discover how creative problem solving is widely viewed as a core competency of any effective leader.

21. The Environment - Physical and Psychological

November 1, 2023

Are you in the right environment to maximize your creativity? What do we mean by creating the right physical and psychological climate? How can sound, light, and time of day affect your creative thought process? What 10 specific psychological dimensions are predictors of high levels of creativity?

20. Lifting the Emotional Lid on Creativity

November 1, 2023

To maximize the power of creative thinking, you need the right emotional mindset. Professor Puccio offers you tips for doing so by investigating emotional intelligence, revealing the dangers of emotional hijacking, and stressing the importance of reflecting and redirecting to help stave off your fear, anxiety, and uncertainty.

19. Tools for Bringing It All Together

November 1, 2023

Now that you've learned the steps of the creative-thinking process, learn how to arrange everything in your toolkit using metacognition and several "metaprocess" skills. You'll see these tools in action in a variety of scenarios, and you'll also get the inside scoop on how to dodge common metacognition mistakes.

18. Persuasion and the Selling of New Ideas

November 1, 2023

Assistors and Resistors

17. Giving Ideas Legs - Implementation Planning

November 1, 2023

What's so creative about implementing your idea? Find out here, as Professor Puccio shares strategies and techniques for moving your solution forward, including using a How-How Diagram to drill down your plan into specific action steps and creating a performance dashboard to visually "monitor" your plan as you're implementing it.

16. Evaluating Creative Solutions and Making Decisions

November 1, 2023

Creative work involves many difficult decisions. Improve the way you make creative development decisions with the use of several advanced tools that make this natural process more formal and systematic: the seven-step evaluation matrix, solution mapping, targeting, and more.

15. Prototypes - How Designers Test Ideas

November 1, 2023

Continue to spur your creative development

14. Developing Ideas - Toward Great Solutions

November 1, 2023

How can you best transform a broad idea into a workable solution that resolves your challenge? Find out ways to make development even more efficient. The main focus in this lecture: the POINT tool, an acronym for a smart, flexible evaluative process that can be used in a variety of ways.

13. Systemic Tools to Generate New Ideas

November 1, 2023

Attribute listing, which makes small variations to an idea. Morphological matrix, which combines two attributes to create new outcomes. SCAMPER, a mnemonic for idea-spurring questions (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Rearrange). Put these fascinating idea-generation tools to work in a series of fun, real-world exercises.

12. Borrowing and Modifying Ideas

November 1, 2023

True creators don't work in isolation. Instead, they often borrow from or modify the ideas of their predecessors. Here, learn how to incorporate solutions from other people (as well as nature) into your specific challenge with the power of tools in Synectics, which rely on the use of direct and personal analogies.

11. Tools for Enhanced Brainstorming

November 1, 2023

Get three more advanced tools to help you generate bold, creative ideas. The first is reverse brainstorming, a variation that helps shake things up. The second is forced relationships, which facilitate associative thought and recharge thinking. The third is visually identifying relationships, which uses images and pictures to stimulate ideas.

10. Classic Brainstorming and Brainwriting

November 1, 2023

Learn how to brainstorm the right way. Explore the three roles in a classic brainstorming session (the facilitator, client, and resource group members) and try your hand at brainwriting, a variation on brainstorming that involves silent cross-ideation

9. Clarify Even More - Webbing and Storyboarding

November 1, 2023

Continue learning about clarification with a closer look at some more advanced tools to add to your toolkit. One is webbing, which leverages two probing questions to broaden your perspective and think in abstract terms. The other is storyboarding, a tool designed to tell your story in a visual sequence.

8. Clarifying the Challenge

November 1, 2023

This lecture focuses on the clarification step of creative problem solving, in which you identify your goal, gather data, and formulate your challenge. Professor Puccio shows you how to use a variety of helpful tools, including finding out the "who, what, where, when, why, and how" of a problematic situation and developing a powerful challenge statement.

7. Stages of the Creative Process - and You

November 1, 2023

Learn explicitly about creative problem solving, a research-based process that can help close the gap between what you have and what you want. There are four stages: clarify (identifying the challenge), ideate (generating tentative solutions), develop (turning good ideas into great solutions), and implement (moving your solutions from your head to reality).

6. Principles for Converging on the Best Ideas

November 1, 2023

What mindset and attitude do you need to decide which of your ideas to pursue? Professor Puccio reveals the four key principles you need for success: practicing affirmative judgment, keeping novelty alive, checking your objectives to make sure they meet the needs of reality, and

5. Principles for Unleashing Your Imagination

November 1, 2023

There are times when we all want (or need) to be creative on demand. And with the right approach, it's possible. Here, use Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway as a lens through which to explore four key principles of creativity training: defer judgment, go for quantity, make connections, and seek novelty.

4. Combining Opposites - Diverge, Then Converge

November 1, 2023

Focus now on the nature of creative thinking itself, with a look at divergent thinking (which involves intuition and associative thought) and convergent thinking (which selects and develops the most promising ideas). Along the way, you'll learn skills for balancing these surprisingly complementary ways of thinking in your own life.

3. Creative Styles - Adaptors and Innovators

November 1, 2023

Using examples of real-life creative icons, investigate two major "styles" of creativity exemplified by Norman Rockwell and Pablo Picasso. The first: adaptors, who are precise, reliable, and detail oriented. The second: innovators, who approach problems from novel angles. Where do you fall on the adaptor-innovator style spectrum? Why is it so important to be flexible?

2. Lateral Thinking Is a Survival Skill

November 1, 2023

First, investigate the evolutionary history of creativity in human beings and the fascinating paradox of conformity and creativity

1. The Creative Person - Practice and Passion

November 1, 2023

What, exactly, is creativity? Take a closer look at what makes a creative person in this introductory lecture that explores ancient ideas about creativity (including the muses of the ancient Greeks); debunks common myths about the sources of creativity; and examines how play, passion, practice, and purpose can enhance your own creative thinking.

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Where to Watch The Creative Thinker’s Toolkit

The Creative Thinker’s Toolkit is available for streaming on the The Great Courses website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch The Creative Thinker’s Toolkit on demand at Prime Video and Amazon.