1. Creativity
A Basic Operating System for All Human Actions
Anders Lennart Swahn
Staffan Svahn
www.creativityinaction.eu
2. Why Creativity?
Creativity has become the most highly priced
commodity in our economy. Human creativity is the
ultimate economic resource. – Richard Florida
The result of Creativity is the optimal experience
called FLOW, making our lives more interesting and
productive. Our future is now closely tied to human
creativity. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Industry and business leaders consider Creativity a
top quality of graduating engineering students.
3. Why is creativity not taught in schools?
No Science-based definition !
No Science-based approach !
4. What is Creativity?
Creativity is the ability to bring something
into existence that was not there before.
- Webster’s Dictionary
5. Creativity is the ability to bring something
into existence that was not there before -
from a possibility in the future.
It is generated from our inner domain of Being
6. How we perceive the world we live in - 1
The Space+Time world-view before Newton
7. How we perceive the world we live in - 2
The Space+Time world-view after Newton
8. How we perceive the world we live in - 3
The Space/Time world-view after Einstein
9. The Space/Time Reality
or
Space+Time Reality ?
• We live in a Space/Time reality, which
cannot be examined or understood with the
help of our limited five senses.
• The part of our world we can examine and
understand is a Space + Time reality.
14. We can’t be creative without good support
Creativity shows up in cooperation between
people supporting each other.
15. Creative Problem Solving
”The world we have made as a result of the level of
thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we
cannot solve at the same level at which we
created them.” - Albert Einstein
Problems created in Knowing
can be solved through Being.
16. Human Resources Development
Consists of two main parts:
1. Further developing the domain of Knowing
Adding more, better and/or different knowledge, experience, skills and
competence to the already existing ones. This component is what all
education and today concentrate on.
2. Using the domain of Being.
The creativity component, which consists of explaining how we can
generate creative actions from the domain of Being and the Basic
Operating System for all Human Actions. It is from the Creative part
that all development, progress, success, Flow and Aliveness will emerge.
18. A basic course in Creativity will provide a
Breakthrough in Education
and it will significantly facilitate
the students’ learning of all other subjects.
