We have all experienced vexing problems that seem impossible until the solution is shown and then the solution is obvious. Finding solutions involves multiple forms of thinking:
¥ We must pose the right questions to look at the problem in the most productive way.
¥ We need to be aware of potential solutions and associate them to the problem.
¥ We must have flexible imaginations. How do we master these different forms of thinking, and how do we find the superior ideas? The book introduces a new framework to understand creativity. The core of the book describes three tools that come out of this framework: the logic tree, solution ontologies, and creativity operators. The three tools answer three critical questions of creativity. How to:
¥ Ask the right questions
¥ Know what you do not know
¥ Imagine the inconceivable
Together the tools form the knowledge map. The remainder of the book describes this new framework, the metaphorical basis of creativity.