Think of an incident in his or her past where they experienced a block to their creative abilities.

Barriers to creative thinking:

Blocks to creative abilities are a common happening which almost everyone pass through. Creative abilities are simply a thought of good ideas, something outside the blocks. There are many barriers to such creative thinking. First and the foremost is formal education. You heard that right, formal education works on the concept of 'only one correct answer.' That's simply a hurdle to one's creative thinking. What if the other answer is more appropriate than the former one which is being taught on since decades. Apart from this, following rules is something which doesn't allow a person to think beyond normal/average thinking.