trên giường trong bóng tối để đi qua lại trong trí tưởng tượng các đường chính trong các hình thức nghiên cứu trước đây, hoặc những thứ đáng chú ý khác được hình thành do đầu cơ khéo léo." Tất nhiên bạn có thể thực sự là giấc mơ của một giải pháp. Tại sao chúng ta ước mơ vẫn còn là một bí ẩn. | Think Creatively About Your Life Life should be an adventure. It is a usually interesting occasionally exciting and sometimes painful journey forwards into an unknown future. As you try to make something of it in a creative way - working things out as you go along - new ideas will come to you. Even in the desert stretches there are wells and springs of inspiration. But they are not to be had in advance. A person who thinks creatively will never look upon life as finished. I have no objection to retirement Mark Twain once said as long as it doesn t interrupt my work. We can all learn from creative thinkers to see life as essentially a series of beginnings. I love beginnings says novelist Christopher Leach. What I like about life is the potentiality of beginnings. Perhaps our lives like books should never be finished only abandoned to a receiver with as much trust as we can muster. 117 The Art of Creative Thinking KEYPOINTS Even if your work in the narrow sense does not call for imagination the art of creative thinking is still relevant to you. For our lives are unfinished creations. Shaping and transforming the raw materials of our lives and circumstances is endlessly interesting and often challenging. Almost everything comes from almost nothing. It is not what happens to you in life that matters but how you respond. The creative response is to transform bad things into good problems into opportunities. Remember the Arab proverb You should never finish building your house . It is beginnings and the unfinished work to be done that excites your creative mind. Endings belong to God. Fortunately for us they are not our business here on earth. Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans John Lennon . The freedom you give yourself to make mistakes is the best environment for creativity. If you want to make God smile tell him your plans. Spanish proverb 118 Appendix A Checklist Have you analysed the problem Understanding the problem Have you defined the .
