How to cultivate children’s creativity

Cultivate creativity. Pay attention to the \”three major regressions\”. Cultivating creativity is not only ability development, but also trait cultivation. If parents want to improve their children\’s innovation ability, they need to cultivate personality traits related to innovation, which mainly include the spirit of exploration, willpower, observation, optimism, independence, humor, openness, social responsibility and other personality qualities. Psychological research shows that when intelligence factors are similar, personality factors may become the key factor affecting creativity. CCTV recommends over 500 excellent documentaries with high scores. Children will become addicted to self-discipline after watching the pattern. The famous American psychologist Sternberg once proposed a three-dimensional model theory of creativity. The third dimension is personality traits, which consists of 7 factors: Tolerance of ambiguity, willingness to overcome obstacles, willingness to allow one\’s opinions to evolve, activities driven by intrinsic motivation, moderate risk-taking, desire to be recognized, and willingness to work hard to be recognized again. It is worth mentioning that my many years of research have shown that people have always ignored the humor and aesthetic qualities of innovation, which makes people\’s conceptual understanding and value judgment of innovation emphasize sociality over originality, and practicality over aesthetics. . In addition, people mostly associate innovation representatives with celebrities in academia, politics, and business, and lack popular understanding of innovation. Therefore, to improve innovative personality, it is urgent to strengthen the recognition of humor and aesthetic qualities in innovation and the pursuit of popular innovation performance. So, how should parents cultivate their children\’s creativity? For many years, I have been advocating that parents cultivate the spirit of \”three regressions\” in their children: returning to children\’s questioning, returning to children\’s imagination, and returning to children\’s judgment. Returning to the state of childlike innocence, it is possible to regain the youth of innovative thinking. Children are interested in all kinds of things and have a strong desire and impulse to explore external things. The most groundbreaking scientists are not always the most gifted, but they are curious. 1. Return to childlike questioning. Children are curious about everything, and they are not afraid of authority or restraint when asking questions. They dare to ask anything. Many of the issues that children are interested in are indifferent to us adults. Because adults tend to have too many worries and limit themselves. My Harvard mentor, Howard Gardner, has been conducting a study of the creative geniuses who shaped life in the 20th century. He found that although the achievements of these geniuses in their respective fields of research have reached the limits of mankind, such as Picasso\’s paintings when he was 20 years old, no one can surpass him, and Einstein\’s achievements in physics when he was 20 years old are not inferior to anyone else, but they There is always a child-like curiosity at work. Professor Gardner believes that \”like children, they are good at capturing external things and acting as free adventurers in their respective fields.\” 2. Return to childlike imagination. For children, anything is possible and everything can be imagined. Everyone has heard the story of Sima Guang smashing a water tank to save someone: a group of children were playing, and one of them accidentally fell into the water tank. When an adult encounters this situation, the first thing he or she might think of is to take the child out of the water tank. However, Sima Guang immediately thought of an unconventional way to save people – smashing the water tank and letting the water flow out. Research shows that children are more likely to be creative than adultsThe peak state (excitement) – the pinnacle of fun and creativity generated by complete immersion. In the excitement of creativity, people will feel that every moment passes by in a hurry. 3. Return to childlike judgment. Returning to childlike judgment means using more intuitive thinking to look at things around you. Intuitive thinking is not standardized and fixed, just like risk-takers, but it is often easier to come up with new ideas. The story of \”Cao Chong weighs the elephant\” reflects the power of children\’s intuitive thinking. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan gave Cao Cao a giant elephant. Cao Cao was very happy and wanted to know the weight of the elephant. His men were helpless, so his 7-year-old son Cao Chong suggested that he drive the elephant to a large ship first, and after it stood firm, draw a line on the side of the ship where the water was level, and then drive the elephant to the shore. Afterwards, the baskets of stones were lifted onto the boat until the draft on the side of the boat was level with the line just drawn. In this way, as long as we weigh the stones, we will know the weight of the elephant. Cao Chong broke through the stereotype of \”weighing an elephant can only weigh its own weight\” and solved his father\’s problem. In short, childlike innocence is the expression of nature, the primitive forest of thinking, and the source of inspiration. If you learn to think with a childlike mind, you will be inspired and enter the realm of innovation. Therefore, if you want to learn to innovate, you must return to the state of childlike innocence, thereby improving your ability to innovate. Psychologist Theresa Amberley said: \”The core of creativity is in the hearts of babies, which is a desire and motivation to explore. They continue to discover, try, and solve and look at things in different ways. As they grow older, I started to transform my ideas while playing into reality.\” Confucius played \”brain teasers\” with children to achieve the \”three major regressions\”. The most effective way was to play \”brain teasers\” with children frequently. \”Brain Teasers\” can cultivate children\’s original thinking ability and return them to their childlike innocence. Confucius once played \”brain teasers\” with a child named Xiang Lu. Legend has it that when he led his disciples to travel around the country, he met Xiang Lu in the Yan Kingdom. Xiang Lu asked Confucius: \”What water has no fish? What fire has no smoke? What tree has no leaves? What flower has no branches?\” Confucius thought for a while and replied: \”Rivers, lakes and seas, wherever there is water, there are fish; firewood, lamps and candles, Where there is fire, there is smoke. As for plants, a tree cannot become a tree without leaves, and it is difficult to bloom without branches.\” Xiang Lu thought it was wrong and said, \”Well water has no fish, fireflies have no smoke, dead trees have no leaves, and snowflakes have no branches.\” Confucius heard this. Yan nodded repeatedly, turned to his disciples and said: \”The descendants are to be feared!\” \”Spring and Autumn Annals\” also specifically records: Gan Luo said: \”My husband Xiang Luo was seven years old and became a teacher of Confucius.\” There is also a saying in the \”Three Character Classic\”: \”Xi Zhongni , Master Xiang Luo.\” In this regard, I also made up a short poem to add to the fun: Xiang Luo is a child, and Confucius didn\’t know when he asked. It\’s a very innovative question-and-answer session that opens up your imagination and makes you ingenious. Coincidentally, according to \”Shao\’s Hearing and Seeing Record\”, the famous Northern Song Dynasty philosopher Shao Yong also liked to play \”brain teasers\” with his son. One day, Shao Yong and his 12-year-old son Shao Bowen were enjoying the shade in the yard. Suddenly, a man looked out from outside the courtyard wall for a while, then turned and left. Shao Yong asked his son: \”What do you think this person is looking for?\” Shao Bowen replied: \”He is probably a thief. He left when he saw someone in the courtyard.\” Shao Yong said: \”No. IfIf he were a thief, he would immediately shrink his head when he saw someone in the yard. However, when he saw someone in the yard, he still looked around. Why? Shao Bowen thought for a moment and said, \”Maybe he is looking for something.\” Shao Yong asked again: \”It should be, but he only looked around. Are he looking for something big or something small?\” Shao Bowen replied: \”It should be looking for something big.\” Shao Yong asked again: \”What could come into our yard?\” That man was dressed as a farmer, what would he be looking for? Shao Bowen replied affirmatively: \”He must be looking for cattle.\” Shao Yong nodded with satisfaction and said: \”You are right, he is here to find the cow.\” \”This is a typical heuristic questioning technique, and it is also a model for parents to play \”brain teasers\” with their children. After growing up, Shao Bowen engaged in criminal detective work, served as a supervisor in Chengdu Prison, and wrote \”Shao\’s News\” \”See the Record\” and become a great Confucian. In summary, parents playing \”brain teasers\” with their children has the following eight benefits: Broaden children\’s thinking: Let children learn to see the world from a different perspective and do brain teasers. Improve children\’s reaction speed: Let Children learn to look at problems and grasp their characteristics, draw inferences from one instance and draw analogies. Cultivate children\’s sense of humor: let children learn to laugh often, and their childlike innocence is always there. Cultivate children\’s optimistic attitude: let children learn to see the world positively and look at life from the perspective. Cultivate children\’s communication Ability: Let children learn to make good friends and turn enemies into friends. Cultivate children\’s speech ability: Let children learn to make up jokes and tell jokes to entertain others and themselves. Cultivate children\’s observation ability: Let children learn to observe details and understand every detail. Cultivate children\’s critical ability: Let children learn to be good at asking questions and open up their imaginations. Therefore, parents must not underestimate the important role of \”brain teasers\” in cultivating children\’s creativity. The famous educator Tao Xingzhi once said, \”Everything is full of creativity.\” It is a place of creation, and every day is a time of creation, and everyone is a creative person.\” In the final analysis, it is to let children become innovators!