“新”十二条《Improving Your Creative Abilities》

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《Improving Your Creative Abilities》

1.Keep track of your ideas at all times. Many times ideas come at unexpected times. If an idea is not written down within 24 hours it will usually be forgotten.

时刻清楚自己的思想动态。许多时候，想法是突然冒出来的。如果不在 24 小时内将它们写下来，那么通常就会忘记。

2.Pose new questions to yourself every day. An inquiring mind is a creatively active one that enlarges its area of awareness.

每天都自问新问题。具有刨根问底的精神，思维便具有创造力和活力，将意识范围扩大。

3.Keep abreast of your field. Read the magazines, trade journals, and other literature in your field to make sure you are not using yesterday's technology to solve toady's problems.

及时了解自己专业领域的进展。阅读此专业领域的杂志、行业期刊及其它文献，确保自己不是在采用过时技术解决当今问题。

4.Engage in creative hobbies. Hobbies can also help you relax. An active mind is necessary for creative growth.

业余时间参加能够培养创造力的活动。而且业余爱好还可帮助放松身心。思维活跃是提升创造力的必要条件。

5.Have courage and self-confidence. Be a paradigm pioneer. Assume that you can and will indeed solve the problem Persist and have the tenacity to overcome obstacles that block the solution pathway.

要有勇气和自信。要敢为人先。相信自己能够真正地解决问题，有顽强的意志去克服前进道路上遇到的障碍。

6.Learn to know and understand yourself. Deepen your self-knowledge by learning your real strengths, skills, weaknesses, dislike, biases, expectations, fears and prejudices.

学会了解自己。加深对自己的了解，包括真正的实力、技能、弱点、好恶、期望、顾虑及成见。

7.Learn about things outside your specialty. Use cross-fertilization to bring ideas and concepts from one field or specialty to another.

了解专业领域以外的东西。将不同领域的专业知识结合起来，可产生灵感与概念。

8.Avoid rigid, set patterns of doing things. Overcome biases and preconceived notions by looking at the problem from a fresh view point, always developing at least two or more alternative solutions to your problem.

做事情要避免固执僵化和因循守旧。看问题时应摒弃偏见和成见，应从一个全新的角度去看，并且总是针对一个问题制定两套或两套以上的解决方案。

9.Be open and receptive to ideas (yours and others). New ideas are fragile; keep them from breaking by seizing on the tentative, half formed concepts and possibilities and developing them.

对于自己和他人的意见，应没有偏见，善于接受。新的意见易夭折；应牢牢抓住未作定论前半成型的概念和可能方案，给予完善，避免夭折。

10.Be alert in your observations. Look for similarities, differences, as well as unique and distinguishing features in situations and problems.

要留意所观察的对象。找出情况与问题中的相似处、不同处以及独特的显著特征。

11.Adopt a risk taking attitude. Fear of failure is the major impediment to generating solutions which are risky (i.e., small chance of succeeding) but would have a major impact if they are successful. Outlining the ways you could fail and how you would deal with these failures will reduce this obstacle to creativity.

要有冒险精神。那些有风险的解决方案成功几率小，但若一旦成功，则影响很大，害怕失败是形成此类解决方案的主要障碍。列出可能失败的几种可能以及将会采取怎样办法解决它们，这样做会减少对创造力发挥的抑制。

12.Keep your sense of humor. You are more creative when you are relaxed. Humor aids in putting your problems (and yourself) in perspective. Many times it relieves tension and makes you more relaxed.

保持幽默感。人在放松时更具创造力。幽默感有助于透彻地分析问题。多数情况下，幽默风趣都能够缓解紧张的心情，让人更为放松。

qh2009

本人创造力非常差，所以打算接见你的方法。谢谢！希望会管用！