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Creativity in a Nutshell
creativity is a fundamental element of human nature, an ability we use every time we come up with a new idea or find a solution to a novel problem. It goes hand in hand with being human. Put simply, creativity is imagination in action, and this action can take care virtually anywhere.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative Aliveness: Turning Life Into a Creative Adventure
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Creativity is production of something new or unusual as a result of the processes of: • sensing difficulties, problems, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, something askew; • making guesses and formulating hypotheses about these deficiencies; • evaluating and testing these guesses and hypotheses; • possibly revising and retesting them; and • final
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As generative AI gets better at producing content, it’s important to remember that creativity is about far more than the outcome. The striking and wondrous thing about creativity is its mysterious seeds of origin.
Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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There is a striking uniformity in the way creative people-artists, writers, mathemati-cians, scientists, and philosophers-speak about the process of production and problem solving. Ghiselin (1952) has collected into one volume a number of essays on the creative pro-cess by a variety of creative workers from Poincare to Picasso. As Ghiselin accurate... See more
Richard E. Nisbett • Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
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the concept of “natural creativity” was prevalent for many centuries in the Eastern world. For instance, the Book of Changes states that yin-yang movements — how yin and yang mutually change from one to the other — create everything.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative Aliveness: Turning Life Into a Creative Adventure
Keely Adler added
In modern Western and Eastern cultures, creativity is now understood as deeply embedded in the fabric of daily life. From something that is exclusive to higher-level entities, whether deities or nature itself, it has evolved into an ability anyone can practice at various levels, whether it is to create art or to perform small acts of innovation as ... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative Aliveness: Turning Life Into a Creative Adventure
