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Creativity, History and You
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Historical Examination of Creativity (Case study
method)
• Look at people and times to understand creativity better– What traits made creative people creative?– What environmental conditions existed?– What was the process of creativity?
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Creativity and Society
1. Creativity affects society – "Creativity is the engine that drives cultural evolution." -M. Csikszentmihalyi in Handbook of Creativity, Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), 1999, 320.
2. Society affects creativity – "There are indeed certain instances in which social/cultural realities largely determine the possibility or lack of possibility for developing creativity in a given field." -D. H. Feldman in Handbook of Creativity, Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), 1999, 179.
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Beginnings: River Societies
• Mesopotamia• Egypt• Indus River
Valley• Yellow River
Valley
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Mesopotamian Creativity
• Why were they creative?– War brought new
cultures which expanded and blended
• When did they stop being creative?– When the Greeks
overlaid their culture.
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Egyptian Creativity
• Why were they creative?– Making a nation
• When did they stop being creative?– Priests took control
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Indian and Chinese Creativity
• Why were they creative?– Interactions
• When did they stop being creative?– When isolated
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Greek Society• Why were the
Greeks creative?– Trade– Idea – "We can
understand"
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Roman Society
• Roman Creativity– Thieves or
innovators?
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Byzantium
• Continued the Roman Empire but lost direction (only thought of preserving the past) and, therefore, lost creativity
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Islamic Society
• Islam's foundation• Islam's expansion
– Highly creative in making a new culture
• Islam's decline– Desire is to recapture
past glories
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Middle Ages
• Creativity lost– Catastrophe (weather and plague)– Absence of rule of law– Absence of leisure time– Absence of learning– Corruption in the Catholic church
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Late Middle Ages
• Positives– Nations– Scholasticism– Gothic– Dante– Chaucer– Discovery
• Negatives– Great schism in Catholic church– Warfare that consumed
resources
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Renaissance• Creativity
– Re-instituted Classical thinking
– Sponsored art defines greatness
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Reformation
• What caused the creativity?– Courage to think
new thoughts and break with tradition
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Baroque: Glory
• What motivated the creativity?– Glory to God or
king or people
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Scientific Awakening – Enlightenment
• Creativity in thinking– New methods– New applications
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Classical
• Creativity– In the rules
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Romantic
• Creativity themes– Personal emotion– Country– Nature– Exoticism
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Impressionism and Post-impressionism
• Creativity based on?– Technique– New way of seeing the world
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Modern
• Creativity?– New rules/no rules– Beyond emotion of
artist– Viewer finds
meaning
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Creativity Trends Throughout History
• Civilizations die from lack of creativity– Egypt, China, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire,
Ottoman Turks, England in 1900s
• Why did they stop being creative?– Rich, overly confident, no future plan– What is the status of the USA?
• Job protection rather than personal growth.– Why worry about a foreigner taking your job, or
maybe a robot? – Make yourself valuable
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"The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn."
– Toffler, Alvin (author of Future Shock), quoted in Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p. 26.
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Creativity Trends Throughout History
• Creative products can change the world– Examples: agriculture, printing press,
machine powering machine, airplane, automobile, nuclear power, computer
• What world-changing creative products are we working on now?
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Creativity Trends Throughout History
• Art and literature reflect larger society• What are the art and literature of
today saying about our culture?
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Improving Creativity Skills
• Thinking better
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Improving Creativity Skills
• Thinking better– Linear and lateral– Conscious and
subconscious
Focus
Depth
Skills
Hard Work
Experience
Growth
Expansion
LinearCreativity
Lateral Creativity
Breadth
Analogies
Uniqueness
Non-Logic
Innovation
Out-of-the-Box
(Intuitive/Imagination)
(Logic/Knowledge)
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Brain control
– Example: Napoleon"Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep? I simply close all the drawers and there I am – asleep." – Napoleon (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/2162/napmem.html)
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Use Mind ControlPut difficult questions in the back of your minds and go about your lives. Ponder and pray quietly and persistently about them. The answer may not come as a lightning bolt. It may come as a little inspiration here and a little there, “line upon line, precept upon precept” (D&C 98:12). Some answers will come from reading the scriptures, some from hearing speakers. And, occasionally, when it is important, some will come by very direct and powerful inspiration.
― Boyd K. Packer (“Prayers and Answers,” Ensign, Nov. 1979, 21.)
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Enhancing Linear Thinking
• Build “Associative Barriers”– These are patterns
(paradigms) that help us proceed in a specific area
– These patterns give context to our thinking• Example: My chemistry
research is done within the context of the atomic model of matter
• When I do research, I interpret results in light of my paradigm
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Enhancing Linear Thinking
• Seek Depth• Stay Current• Understand better• Explain difficult concepts to people
outside the domain• Be focused
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Enhancing Lateral Thinking
• Break down “Associative Barriers”– Expose yourself to a
range of cultures– Learn differently– Reverse assumptions– Look at multiple
perspective
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Enhancing Lateral Thinking
• Learn art• Travel extensively• Read widely and avidly• Study outside your primary domain• Practice making unusual and
unexpected mental associations• Be perceptive• Practice humor
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Be Perceptive
• Rely on intuition, imagination and impetuousness
• Envision the consequences– Mozart– Michelangelo
• Slow down, look at the big picture
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Creativity and Humor
• Atheism is a non-prophet organization• No sense being pessimistic, it probably
wouldn’t work anyway.• I used to think I was indecisive, but now
I’m not sure. • Editing is a rewording activity• My reality check just bounced• What if there were no hypothetical
questions?
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Creativity and HumorSpecialized Humor
• Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?• Entropy isn’t what it used to be.• 186,000 miles/sec: not just a good idea, it’s
the LAW!• Santa’s elves are just a bunch of subordinate
Clauses.• Clones are people, two.• Dyslexics have more fnu• Help stamp out and eradicate superfluous
redundancy.• Air pollution is a mist-demeanor. • Microbiology Lab Staph.
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Creative Personality• Confident
– Not afraid of criticism– Mature in thinking
• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ― Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
• Hard working– Use of brain control– Store up knowledge
• Self-motivated
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Charity
Creativity
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The Importance of Creativity
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Thank You
Are you more creative?