The Importance of Creative Problem Solving

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The Importance of Creative Problem Solving

The Complete Method Of Creative Problem Solving is just another of the many names for The Scientific Method or "The Greatest Idea Ever Recognized and Developed."

The name, The Scientific Method, seems to scare people, while the term, The Complete Method Of Creative Problem Solving has a more global appeal. Remember, decisions are just problems. The use of the term "Complete" implies that it includes both problem origination and challenge of solution, as one or both of these are often omitted from most problem-solving methods, guides or formulas.

Every 73 Days By The Year 2020*
Estimated number of years it took
for knowledge to double since 1750:

1750-1900 150 years...
ø	*1900-1950* 50 years ...
	ø	*1950-1960* 10 years ...
		ø	*1960-1992* 5 years ...

* As reported by a presenter at the June '92 Conference Teach America: Teacher Preparation for the New American School.

Now with computers and the Internet, the ACCESSIBILITY of information and knowledge is ALMOST DOUBLING EVERY YEAR! We can only absorb and evaluate a small part of this explosion of information and knowledge.

To multiply our chances of profiting from and applying this knowledge, we must teach and learn the method used to originate, refine, extend, and apply knowledge in all fields.

SM-14 is a modern guide for teaching this method. To achieve educational unity, it must be taught across the curricula.

* The following statements and concepts were compiled from the literature:

Those Trained in The Complete Method Of Creative Problem Solving (The Scientific Method) Have a Higher Degree of:	Those NOT Trained in The Method Of Complete Creative Problem Solving Are More Apt to:
Confidence; know quickly how to proceed	Always puzzle about how to proceed
Coping with novelty; are trained for complex problems	Be frustrated by complexity; untrained in investigation methods
Curiosity; perceptual sensitivity increases value of observations	Overlook opportunities, discoveries, data, solutions, etc.
Believe in theory; accumulate tentative hypotheses	Turn up multitude of irrelevant data, conduct unfocused searches
Ability to define and redefine problem: do so frequently	Often work on wrong problem
Ability to set goals & plans; ensure maximum results for efforts	Waste time and energy jumping around aimlessly
Creativity; trained and encouraged in creativity	Not recognize need for or reason to learn methods of creativity
Finding ideas through recognition of patterns and irregularities	Make fewer discoveries and solve fewer problems
Arriving at final conclusion that is correct	Arrive at conclusion with only 50-50 chance of correctness
Suspending judgment throughout work and on final conclusion	Be over-confident of untested ideas and concepts
Training in communication skills, report writing & related skills	Be untrained in preparation of professional-grade reporting
Familiarity with creative, logical, and technical methods	Have little knowledge of these methods
Independence of judgment, reject conformity, group pressure	Flow with tide of authoritative opinions; lose chance to progress
Ability to abstract concepts and basic principles from material	Be poor at abstracting meat from material read
Awareness of danger of bias and prejudices in analysis	Reach false conclusions; accept biased, prejudiced reasoning

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