# Creative Thinking

Skill · Soft Skills and Communication

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/creative-thinking

Creative thinking is a cognitive skill involving the generation of novel ideas, associations, and perspectives by connecting seemingly unrelated concepts. It underlies innovation in fields from art and design to business strategy and engineering, and can be cultivated through practices like divergent thinking exercises and exposure to diverse experiences. It is frequently listed as a core soft skill on resumes across many industries.

Related skills: [Design Thinking](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/design-thinking), [Creativity](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/creativity), [Ideation](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/ideation), [Brainstorming](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/brainstorming), [Innovation](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/innovation), [Cognitive flexibility](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cognitive-flexibility)

## Open roles requiring Creative Thinking (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.