The ability to think creatively is an asset in any profession and this book demonstrates how, by working through its techniques and questionnaires, anyone can improve their creative thinking skills. A six-step model of the creative process is provided: inspiration - the spontaneous generation of ideas; clarification - rational focus on what the ideas are meant to achieve; distillation - deciding which ideas are worth pursuing; perserverance - determinedly pushing the best ideas through to completion; incubation - storing ideas to be picked up later; and editing - the self-critical phase of amendment, deletion and adaptation.