The secret of the highly creative thinker. How to make connections others don’t. Dorte Nielsen & Sarah Thurber. I would never recommend a “method”, I’ve never liked them. But “The secret of the highly creative thinker” is different. It’s not a method, it’s a boot camp. Written by Nielsen and Thurber (two outstandingly creative minds), this book is a friendly challenge to make you lose your fear to create connections which, even if they might look silly, are the first step to genius.
Conventional does not bring anything new and yesterday’s trend is today’s mainstream. So, there is no better thing than devising your own status quo with your own creative thinking style. As with most things in life, you can train creativity and we are all meant to do this. The real evolution of digitalisation is not using technology (that’s just a platform), but the rebirth of human talent. Like the ability to imagine and create. And learning to connect the dots in a thousand different ways can help us to go behind our (apparent) mental limits. That’s the lobby of every creative process. And, at any given moment in our lives, we will need creativity to find solutions to specific problems or to devise new tools.
