Some people define innovative thinking as: innovative thinking refers to the thinking process of solving problems with novel and unique methods. Through this kind of thinking, we can not only reveal the essence of objective things and their internal relations, but also produce novel, original and obvious social significance thinking results.
There is another saying: Innovative thinking refers to a novel thinking process and its function that can solve a specific need (purpose).
No matter how many statements there are, the essence of innovative thinking is the same. Innovative thinking is the core of human creativity and the highest form of thinking, and it is the most active, active and fruitful thinking form in human thinking activities. The progress and development of human society can not be separated from the growth and development of knowledge, which is the result of innovative thinking. Therefore, innovative thinking can better reflect people's subjective initiative than other forms of thinking mentioned above.
innovative thinking can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. It is generally believed that all the thinking activities that contribute to innovative achievements in the process of asking and solving problems can be regarded as innovative thinking in a broad sense. In a narrow sense, innovative thinking refers to people's innovative thinking activities directly formed in innovative activities, such as inspiration, intuition, epiphany and other illogical thinking forms.
There have been many different expressions about the meaning of innovative thinking. For example, Zhang Jialong, a researcher at China Academy of Social Sciences, a doctoral tutor and secretary-general of the Chinese Logic Society, thinks that innovative thinking is a kind of thinking that people consciously and actively combine practical and pioneering achievements. In innovative thinking, logical thinking and illogical thinking are intertwined. Logical thinking can discover new truths, which has been proved by countless scientific examples. In the process of innovative thinking, people also apply illogical thinking, and inspiration is a kind of illogical thinking. Everyone can have innovative thinking, but it needs to be developed. Huang Haosen, the special researcher director of Nanjing Jinling Institute of Thinking and the Institute of Innovative Thinking of Luoda University, believes that creativity depends on thinking ability, imagination and observation, which together form creative thinking, that is, human intelligence.
For anyone, innovative thinking can be trained, and the only difference lies in the degree of effectiveness achieved through training. College students can enhance their innovative thinking ability through persistent cultivation and training. Training is very different from not training. Many famous scientists have had wonderful expositions on innovative thinking. Einstein pointed out: "The highest mission of physicists is to get those universal basic laws ... There is no logical road to these laws; These laws can only be obtained through intuition based on the understanding of experience. " He also said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination summarizes everything in the world, promotes the pace, and is the source of knowledge evolution. Strictly speaking, imagination is a real factor in scientific research. " Planck has a similar view. He said, "Every hypothesis is the product of imagination, and imagination works through intuition.". Professor Gordon of Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinks: "Since invention is not to clarify the relationship between known things, but to discover the unknown relationship between things, it is necessary to rely on non-inferential factors to connect seemingly unrelated things."
The research on the law of innovative thinking began in the early 2th century. Previous invention and innovation activities mainly rely on spontaneous intuition and experience, and think that the person who made the invention is a genius or a lucky one, which is mysterious. In the 19th century, due to the demand of industrialization and the accelerated development of science and technology, a large number of inventions and innovations emerged, and the experience of inventors was gradually deposited and exchanged. In 196, Prindl, an American patent examiner, presented a paper "The Art of Invention" at the meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), which initiated the study of innovative thinking and methods. Since then, the research work in this field has been increasing day by day. By the 195s, a creative education movement was formed, which was popular in Europe and America. Among them, hundreds of creative techniques were summarized. On this basis, Germany, Japan, the former Soviet Union and the United States have successively introduced different forms of systematic invention methods since the 197s. In China, research in this field has been started since 198s. Although innovative thinking is inseparable from logical thinking, it also needs to use the thinking mode of concept, judgment and reasoning, but it is not a logical step-by-step derivation of hypotheses, concepts and theories from empirical materials, but a thinking process that directly grasps the essence of things by leaps and bounds through unique thinking forms such as visualization, imagination and intuition. It is based on experience, and suddenly goes beyond it. It is an epiphany and intuitive thinking.
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