Most people believe they don’t have much imagination. They are wrong. Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we be-come adults, forget how to access it. Creativity isn’t always connect-ed with great works of art or ideas.

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People at work and in their free time routinely think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you. This technique involves taking unrelated ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the ideas/words associated with candles: light, fire, matches, wax, night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the ideas to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original present; you could buy him tickets to a match or take him out for the night.


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Imagine that normal limitations don’t exist. You have as much time / space / money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new possibilities. If, for example, your goal is to learn to ski, you can now practise skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now adapt this to reality. Maybe you can practise skiing every day in December, or every Monday in January.
Look at the situation from a different point of view. Good nego-tiators use this technique in business, and so do writers. Fiction writ-ers often imagine they are the characters in their books. They ask questions: What does this character want? Why can’t she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? What does she dream about? If your goal involves other people, put yourself “in their shoes”. He best fishermen think like fish!

7. Decide if these statements are true (T) or false (F).

38. We are all imaginative.
39. Creativity is always connected with great works of art or ideas.
40. People at work and in their free time routinely think of crea-tive ways to solve problems.
41. You should lookat the situation froma different point of view. 42. Fiction writers often imagine they are ideal people.