Visual-figurative thinking is the extraordinary ability of a creative person to see the non-standard in everyday things. Thanks to the ability to think creatively, new projects are born in the world, discoveries are made, and life becomes not stereotyped, but unique for everyone who can see in it a non-ordinary cycle of events, actions and objects.
Why is it important to develop thinking outside the box?
Each of us is born a unique person. Society and the framework of personal growth once in the last century made people a single and cohesive team, the working and middle class lived within the framework of 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 high society, then the creative fraternity (beau monde) ceased to be an aristocratic cell due to the fact that every poet rushed to the same place. But today, the visual-figurative type of thinking is a special state of mind inherent in people, inthat the world needs. 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 highly valued to the right extent. Computer technology and the development of various fields of activity, where freedom of style and self-expression is only welcome, have led to the development of the qualities of non-standard thinking. What does it mean? What qualities for a successful creative company will make your resume outstanding and unrivaled?
Visual Thinking
Visual 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 go hand in hand with creative thinking.
• Equally important is the ability to fully immerse yourself in the process of creating new and different ideas. This is both patience to complete what has been started, and perseverance to resist all adversity. History knows examples of the 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 - the geniuses of their time.
• Dynamism. This is what distinguishes the creativity of a living person from the generation of options by a computer. The brain of a creative person is a dynamic system, with its own system of patterns of activity. It develops along with the world and its needs, andit means that he knows exactly what trends are popular at a given time. Revolutionary solutions 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 of a creative profession (designer, couturier, artist, poet, musician, etc.)
How to develop out-of-the-box thinking?
• Develop constantly, be interested in novelties and internal process technologies, gain deep knowledge from things that are your area of interest.
• Practice drawing thoughts on paper that cannot be put into form: what love looks like, fear, how photosynthesis works, what movement is, etc.
• Do not look for correctness or justification for your decisions. Reality is ambiguous. The same thing might look like:
- so;
- not so;
- otherwise: millions of other versions.
• Don't get hung up on one form of expression - this is the first step back. Don't be discouraged if you are not understood: look for other ways. W alt Disney, now world famous, was once fired from a magazine agency for his lack of imagination. Go ahead and keep evolving.
• Expression Formula: “You don't see things right or wrong. You see them the way you see them. Learn to see the world and interpret events and objects from children.
Children are geniuses of non-standard solutions
A child's creativity doesn't need to be developed. Another important thing 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 the truth and creativity of the purest water.
How does the mechanism of children's perception work? Coming into the world, a small person endlessly and constantly cognizes all the space around him. A huge amount of information for a newborn and the pace of brain development for several years simultaneously cover all areas of life. Developing visual-figurative and visual-effective thinking are inevitable processes of self-consciousness and knowledge of the world around. Psychologists believe that children's non-standard thinking up to four years of age has a visual-effective type (when a child breaks a toy to find out what is inside, why it is light or soft), and after four, when the baby becomes a person and can assume that he is making noise inside car or vacuum cleaner, visual-figurative thinking begins to develop.
Psychologists' opinion
Among children of primary and preschool age, visual-figurative thinking is a process in psychology that allows a child who cannot express himself on an equal footing with an adult to operate with other means to satisfy his needs. Later, when his initial vocabulary and concepts are already sufficient to not be explained by gestures, the child's imagination becomesboth an intuitive encyclopedia of knowledge and a generator of ideas for solving problems.
A creative child is a successful and versatile personality
Curiosity, keen interest, wonder, and growing intelligence cannot be boxed in if you want to see a child as a creative person, and not a stencil of your own beliefs. The foundation of this experience will later repeatedly become the basis for success in adulthood. Puzzles, rebuses, drawing and riddles - children are very fond of such games, and the essence of this is simple: thanks to them, they acquire the skills of spatial and visual-figurative thinking, connections of causes and effects 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.
