Patterns to creative thinking...

Hi junta!
Here’s some “probable” interesting introspection I like to highlight about the creative thought process and pattern to it, which most of us don’t realize too often. I highly recommend this reading to those who think of creativity as a cliché, or a stereotype phrase used for eccentric lost people….
My perspective is inference from the new avenues of information that I’ve been referring to on the same subject…

How dictionary defines creative thinking and creativity:-
“the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination”

“passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"

“the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

Is Creativity a natural instinct?
Creativity distorts or dodges reality to create fantasy.
Conventionally people believed that creativity is the possession of artistic caliber which is a natural instinct or an inborn talent. But actually creativity doesn’t imply artistic caliber, - being skilled, artistic and creative are three different platforms all together they can be easily interlinked and overlapped but are three different concepts.
Creativity actually incorporates learning from our experiences, knowledge, surroundings and observations and adds a creative twist to it. It walks the line between what is there and what can be created out of it! Design pundits and modern thinkers strongly believe that creative thinking can be taught and generated.

Is creativity only intuitive?
Yes a part of it surely is.. “BUT” what sparks that intuition.. How we get the strong gut feeling?
In any surrounding we automatically tend to form certain patterns which are an intangible & eclectic combination of observations & perceptions and draw certain inferences and conclusions that are primarily a constituent of our unconscious mind. These we term as “intuitions”. Even though our mind does works, all the time, to preserve “intuitions” it is @ a very abstract level and does not involve cognitive part of our brain so we are often unable to track down the logically essence of an intuition.
If we practice to implement the same "Intutive" design approch, converting the process @ a congnitive level, by rationalizing the input data we can discovery far better patterns and involving more minds in such a process can multifold effective creative thinking for more far-sighted, diverse and "profit making" ideas.

P.S. There is loads more i'll like to share on design methodology and tools to creative thinking .. but giving too much @ a time doesn't give time to seep in...btw wud really like a feed back and intense discussion from readers on the same.
Here's a nice quote i'll like to leave everyone with... till next time (do post ur responses)
"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department." Tom Peters