Thinking is the major part of Behavioral

The man is a great thinker and thinking is the form of exercise mind. It is a sign of intellectual activity with an alert mind and active mental process. Thinking is of two types; the one is of imaginative type and the other is of creative type. The thinking and the language are closely related. The creative thinking finds out solution into stage-wise.

Stage one is preparation: In the first stage, the thinker needs preparation for the thinking and collects facts and materials, which are considered necessary for new solutions.

Stage two is initiation of incubation:  The second stage of thinking called  the” Initiating stage”, in which the thinker tends to forget or face initial hurdle or problem of thinking and tries to find out clues for the solution.

Stage three is Illumination: It is stage of illumination in which the thinker suddenly finds out an idea for clear visualization of the solution.

Stage four is evaluation:  It is the stage of evaluation of ideas, which are tested to see the satisfactory solution of the problem.

Stage five is revision and modification:  It is the stage of revision and minor modification for perfect solution of the problem. The imaginative type of thinking is a sort of the daydreaming and planning for future. It takes place of absence of original sensory stimuli and involves lot of active mental processes.

The creative type of thinking is some form of thinking especial and is considered to be the highest form of thinking. The higher centre of brain, the cerebral cortex is the basis of this kind of thinking process.

The new discoveries and inventions are the result of this kind of creative thinking. The thinking involves perception, good memory, power of imagination, reasoning and problem solving e.g. correct thinking can always find out a correct solution to any kind of problem. The correct thinking is the realistic and literal thinking.

‘The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he things about other things.’
--- Bertrand Russell.