Creativity is an important component of strategic thinking. Those who are able to imagine and think through varying scenarios are capable of predicting the end game. Research by Larson and Angus helps shed light on the process of creative learning and its association with developing critical strategies (2011). This learning can start in high school and move into the early college years. Creative learning may continue through one’s lifetime. The development of agency is an important tool for achieving goals and ensuring the ability to move through a changing environment. Projects in young adulthood and early college can help to develop the mental faculty of seeing projects to their completion as well as thinking creatively about solving problems. Education should have a level of creative faculty to develop these skills to match concrete content learning. Agency skills also develop the ability to have executive control over one’s own thoughts, learn new cognitive tools, deve
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