Productive thinking

Productive thinking involves creative transformation or reorganization of a situation that is confused, opaque and incomprehensible into one which makes structural sense and that demonstrate understanding of and insight into the crucial features of the problem situation.

Productive thinking is very often supported by dispositions or habits of mind which take time to develop.

Like other kinds of thinking, productive thinking may become so well practiced as to be taken for granted but when energized by feelings and determination.

Einstein was considered a genius because he believed that problems are not solved by using the same way of thinking and doing that which create the problem in the first place.

He used productive thinking to find new ways to look at old information. This implies asking new kinds of questions instead of looking for answers from old information.
Productive thinking