Visual-figurative thinking is an extraordinary ability of a creative person to see non-standard in everyday things. Thanks to the ability to think creatively, new projects are born in the world, discoveries are made and life does not become stereotyped, but unique for everyone who knows how to see in it not an ordinary cycle of events, actions and objects.
Why is the development of thinking outside the box important?
Each of us is born a unique person. At one time in the last century, society and the framework of personal growth made people a united and united team, the working and middle classes lived under the regime and the minimum required manifestations of their needs, but creative people always stood out from the crowd - in the 19th century this type of people was a part of high society, then the creative fraternity (beau monde) ceased to be an aristocratic cell due to the fact that every vermin was torn there. But today, the visual-figurative type of thinking is a special state of mind inherent in the people who need the world. At present, the ability to see the world in one's own projections is not limited to painting, translations, and writing talent, although these qualities are very much appreciated to a proper degree. Computer technology and the development of diverse fields of activity, where freedom of style and expression are welcome, entailed the development of the qualities of innovative thinking. What does it mean? What qualities for a successfully developing creative company will make your resume outstanding and unrivaled?
Visual thinking
Visual-figurative thinking is:
• First of all, creativity. This approach to any task allows you to find ways of artistic, non-standard, creative perception. Spontaneity and unusualness accompany creative thinking.
• Of no less importance is the ability to completely immerse yourself in the process of creating new and different ideas. This is patience, to bring things to the end, and perseverance to withstand all adversities. History knows examples of greats who were not recognized and considered the most average, and centuries later the whole world uses their inventions or admires their masterpieces: Edison, Mozart, Rembrandt, Picasso, Shakespeare - geniuses of their time.
• Dynamism. This distinguishes the creativity of a living person from the generation of options by computer. The brain of a creative person is a dynamic system, with its own system of patterns of activity. It is developing along with the world and its needs, which means that he knows which particular trends are currently popular. Revolutionary decisions are invented not by a computer, but by a person, and therefore visual-figurative thinking is one of the factors that opens up a huge number of opportunities and prospects for a person in a creative profession (designer, couturier, artist, poet, musician, etc.).
How to develop innovative thinking?
• Develop constantly, be interested in new products and internal process technologies, receive deep knowledge from the things that make up your area of interest.
• Practice drawing on paper thoughts that cannot be translated into forms: what love looks like, fear, how photosynthesis occurs, what movement is, etc.
• Do not seek the correctness or justification of your decisions. The reality is mixed. One and the same thing might look:
- So;
- not this way;
- otherwise: millions of other versions.
• Do not go in cycles in one form of expression of thoughts - this is the first step back. Do not despair if you are not understood: look for other ways. Walt Disney, today known anywhere in the world, was once fired from a journal agency for lack of imagination. Dare and do not stop developing.
• Self-expression formula: “You do not see things right or wrong. You see them as you see them. ” Learn about the vision of the world and the interpretation of events and objects in children.
Children are geniuses of non-standard solutions
The creative abilities of the child do not need to be developed. What is important is not to ruin them. Neither analytics nor logic are present in children's actions and decisions; their answers to tricky questions are most often sincere and direct, but each of them is truth and creativity of purest water.
What is the mechanism of children's perception? Coming into the world, a little man endlessly and constantly learns all the space around him. A huge amount of information for the newborn and the pace of brain development over several years simultaneously cover all areas of life. Developing visual-figurative and visual-effective thinking are inevitable processes of self-awareness and cognition of the surrounding world. Psychologists believe that children's thinking outside the box for four years is clearly effective (when a child breaks a toy to find out what’s inside, why it’s light or soft), and after four, when a baby becomes a person and can assume that it makes a noise inside a car or a vacuum cleaner, visual-figurative thinking begins to develop.
The opinion of psychologists
Among young children and preschool children, visual-figurative thinking is a process in psychology that allows a child who does not know how to communicate on an equal footing with an adult, operate with other means to satisfy his needs. Later, when his initial vocabulary and concepts are already sufficient to not be explained by gestures, children's imagination becomes both an intuitive encyclopedia of knowledge and a generator of ideas for solving problems.
Creative child is a successful and multifaceted personality.
Curiosity, lively interest, surprise and developing intelligence cannot be squeezed into the framework if you want to see a creative personality in a child , and not a stencil of your own beliefs. The foundation of this experience will subsequently repeatedly become the basis for success in adulthood. Jigsaw puzzles, puzzles, drawing and riddles - children love these games very much, but the essence of this is simple: thanks to them they gain skills in spatial and visual-figurative thinking, connections of causes and consequences of events and actions.
Visual-figurative thinking of preschoolers is the ability to solve problems in the mind due to the ability to apply images of accumulated schemes and algorithms. This is the beginning of the formation of abstract logical thinking, and then the ability to reason, understand, perceive, remember, analyze, etc.