Appendix ATEST OF CREATIVITYA Self-Assessment Exercise

The left side of your brain handles analytical thinking: logical, rational, linear, numerical, precise. Many aspects of your job call for analytical thinking: planning a project, preparing a budget, learning a procedure, solving a problem, studying alternatives, and making decisions.

The right side of your brain handles creative thinking: expansive, visionary, intuitive, spatial, artistic. Whenever you come up with new ideas or create products, procedures, forms, programs, or plans that are new (or, at least, have never been generated by you before), you are drawing on the right side of your brain.

This self-assessment exercise will help you to get a quick measure of your creativity. There ...

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