The importance of creative thinking today needs no emphasis. In your profession or 1 of work you will have competitive 2 if you develop your ability to come 3 new ideas. In your personal life, too, creative thinking can lead you into new 4 of creative activity. It can enrich your life- 5 not always in the way you expect. Humans cannot make anything out of 6 . Every man starts with all there is. The 7 materials- the elements, constituents or substances of which something can be made or 8 -are all here in our universe. You may have noticed that we tend to attach the word "creative" 9 products that are very different 10 the original raw materials used. A masterpiece by Rubens was once a(an) 11 of blue, red, yellow and green worms of paint on the artist's palette. Now the physical materials-paints and canvas for an artist, paper and pen for an author- are entirely 12 . Creation here is more in the mind. Perception, ideas and feelings are 13 in a concept or vision. Of course, the artist, writer or composer needs skill and technique to form on canvas or paper what is 14 in the mind. The same principle holds good in creative thinking 15 in creativity in general. Our creative imaginations must have something to 16 on. We do not form new ideas out of nothing. The creative mind sees possibilities in them or connections that are invisible to 17 creative minds. That conclusion brings enormous 18 . You do not have to conjure up new ideas from the air. Your task as a creative thinker is to combine ideas or things that hitherto were not thought to be 19 , and then you will be seen as a crative thinker. You will have added value to the synthesis, 20 a whole is more than the sum of its parts.