Thinking: Afterthoughts

Ever fascinated with the mysterious ways of the human mind, I'm still mulling this piece from Creativity Portal: "Rethinking Thinking" by David Jiles.

Jiles, who has examined the best creative thinkers (Einstein, Hemingway, Picasso, Tesla, Beethoven and countless others) to find common secrets towards creative thinking, writes:

"People in every creative endeavor use a common set of general-purpose
thinking tools in an almost infinite variety of ways. These tools reveal the
nature of creative thinking itself; they make surprising connections among the
sciences, arts, humanities, and technologies. At the level of creative
imagination, everyone thinks alike. But, as master composer Igor Fyodorovich
Stravinsky explained in The Poetics of Music, is that “what concerns us
here is not imagination in itself, but rather creative imagination: the faculty
that helps us pass from the level of conception to the level of
realization.”

He narrows his discussion to a dozen talking points:

Observation
Imaging
Abstracting
Recognizing Patterns
Analogizing
Body
Empathizing
Dimensional Thinking
Modeling
Playing
Transforming
Dreaming

Check it out, if you're as fascinated as I am with the way the mind words.