Resolving Paradoxes of Physics in the University Study

Abstract

The article substantiates the thesis about the futility of the usual interpretation of creativity as originality. In order to make our position on this issue more convincing, we have given to the originality concept an appearance of contradiction. The discussion in the article leads to the conclusion thatthe category of creative thinking will be really effective if the main characteristic of the creativity were not originality but rather the ability to independent problem solving. The article presents the optimal steps for an independent solution of research problems. Authors introduce the idea of “easy paradoxes” for developing creative thinking.