A CHILD in US: The Creative Thinking Handbook: Generate Creative Ideas and Solve Problems using the CHILD Framework - Couverture souple

Yadav, Gaurav

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9334361492 ISBN 13 : 9789334361490

Editeur : Idaete, 2025

Synopsis

What if your best ideas aren't ahead of you, but already inside you?

Every child thinks creatively without being taught. They ask the obvious question. They guess before they know. They imagine before they judge. Then two decades of schooling and work reward the safe answer, and the capability goes quiet.

The World Economic Forum ranks creative thinking, curiosity and active listening among the essential core skills for 2025–2030. The reason is blunt: as AI absorbs analysis, recall and execution, the work left to humans is the work that demands original thought. Most professionals have no reliable method for producing it.

A CHILD in Us gives you one.

The CHILD Framework

Creative thinking stops being a mood and becomes a repeatable process, built on five modes you already possess:

• Curiosity — ask the questions that open a problem instead of closing it, and dismantle the biases that quietly suppress inquiry
• Heuristics — the mental shortcuts experienced thinkers rely on, and the point where those shortcuts become traps
• Imagination — structured idea generation that gets past the obvious first answer
• Laconic — the discipline of precision, and the persuasion that follows from it
• Deductive — reasoning and testing, so ideas survive contact with reality

Each part combines cognitive science, design practice and exercises you can apply to a real problem the same day.

Read this if:

• You solve problems for a living and want a method rather than inspiration
• You lead teams and need innovation to be systematic rather than accidental
• You suspect AI is commoditising the part of your job you were good at

Don't read this if you want twelve rules and a motivational close.

By Gaurav Yadav — designer, innovation strategist and mentor at IIT Bombay, drawing on 26 years of design practice and Fortune 500 consulting.

The world needs creative thinkers. You were born one.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Idaete
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9334361492
• ISBN 13: 9789334361490
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 311
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