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Edward de Bono’s article Creative solutions: how creativity can help with decision making and analysis made for uncomfortable reading.

Why?

Because it exposed a few hidden home truths that most self-confessed ‘creative types’ hide even from themselves.

And what is that?

That we enjoy creative thinking while it is fun, but often bail out when it starts to feel like hard work.

But as Edward de Bono points out in this article, “the disciplined use of creative thinking often turns up ideas way beyond those that arise from the habit of creative thinking.”

Becoming a disciplined creative thinker is a whole different ball game.

Are you up to it?

A press release from a Chinese online tutorial service gives strength to the Chinese governments decision to focus on moving from a memory-based education system to one that cultivates and encourages creative thinking.

Many people in the West naievely cling onto the idea that the West has some kind of monopoly on creativity. They see all the manufacturing and business wealth moving East and pacify themselves with the thought that we will retain our preeminence in the global economy through creative thinking.

China is packed with people who are bursting at the seams to express the full depths of their creativity, and are already doing so. We saw that at the Olympics. Once they get a government-backed education system that actively fosters creativity and innovation as well… aye-yay-yay!

Shouldn’t we in the West be cultivating our own creativity more actively at the school level too?

Here’s the release:

China Education Resources Announces the Launch of its Combined Internet and Offline Tutoring Programs in China