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What is creativity?
•A way of thinking and doing that brings about unexpected and original ideas.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of them.
-Linus Pauling (2-time Nobel prize winner)
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1 minute class assignment(take out paper and a pencil)
List as many uses as you can for a paper cup.
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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)
Fluency
Flexibility
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Two minds
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
– Albert Einstein
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How the Mind Works
• Creative thinking occurs when previously unrelated ideas are linked– Lateral thinking means making
connections between different ideas – Humor – Art is felt (aesthetics) and that is the
combination thoughts that evoke feelings
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Creativity and Aesthetics
Perhaps what differentiates highly creative ideas from ordinary ones is some combined sense of beauty, simplicity, and harmony.
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Increasing Personal Creativity
• Ability to choose or balance attributes– Depth/breadth– Focused/relaxed– Smart/uncertain– Disciplined/playful– Realistic/imaginative– Introverted/extroverted– Humble/proud– Traditional/rebellious– Objective/passionate– Pain/pleasure
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Types of Creativity
• Small c (Personal) creativity – new and useful only to or primarily to the individual creator.
• Big C (Recognized creativity) – valuable to a group as a whole. May transform society or group.
Fox, Jon Michael and Ronni Lea Fox, Exploring the Nature of Creativity,
Kendall/Hunt, 2000, p.14.
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The creative individual is a person who regularly solves problems, fashions products, or defines new questions in a particular field in a way that is initially considered novel but that ultimately becomes accepted in a particular cultural setting.
– Gardner, Howard, Creating Minds, Basic Books, 1993, p.35.
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Creativity needs:Skill, Talent, Personality
Are they in-born or learned?
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Making Unusual and Unexpected Mental
Associations
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Making Unusual and Unexpected Mental
Associations
Creativity doesn’t create something out of nothing but, rather, recombines ideas that already separately exist.
— Arthur Koestler
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Increasing Personal Creativity
• Ability to choose or balance attributes• Practice making unusual and
unexpected mental associations• Acquire information in many areas
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Acquire information in many areas
• Travel• Appreciation and study of the arts• Appreciation of education • General inquisitiveness – work hard
and develop a passion for your studies, work, life
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Be Confident
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein
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Be prepared for criticism
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself; therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Why aren’t we creative?
• Anxious to get the “right” answer• Become less creative with age• Willing to reject “bad” ideas• Do not seek alternative ideas• Doubt that a solution exists• Stopped asking discovery questions
– What if, why not…
• Developed habits• Hard to suspend logic