What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
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What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
Saved by Isabelle Levent and
For thousands of years, people outsourced ownership over their creativity to a mythical being. Today, the Muse has been replaced with other ideas: the guru, the industry expert, the case study, the random moments of inspiration, and of course, the best practice. We fall victim to a false belief that we must locate something “out there” in order to
... See moreThere are three defining features of inspiration. It starts with evocation. People are usually inspired by something, whether it’s a role model, teacher, experience, or subject matter—this could be as significant as a full-on crystallizing experience or as everyday as noticing an eye-catching photo on Instagram.
While others defined creativity as the ability to produce something new and useful, his rather idiosyncratic definition read, “a process of becoming sensitive to problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, and so on; identifying the difficulty; searching for solutions, making guesses, or formulating hypotheses about t
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