Why is thinking critically and creatively important?
Being able to think critically and creatively is important for many reasons. Creativity and an enquiring mind are fundamental to carrying out research. Constantly asking questions and challenging existing ideas, concepts, theories and viewpoints leads to understanding and innovation. Later, after your course is finished, you will also find critical and creative thinking is of great value in the business, scientific and professional world. Within a rapidly changing world, many aspects of work require innovative approaches to doing things rather than doing them the way they have always been done. The ability to think up new ways of doing or looking at things by challenging existing ways is very important.
