Creative people have certain cognitive tendencies that allow them to be more creative. They use more of their mental resources to generate more raw material for new ideas. They also have less intellectual regulation that filters out unconventional ideas. As a result, creative people are able to generate more spontaneous and unusual ideas. However, creativity manifests itself in many different personality types and behaviors.
Coffee with a Curator: "The Mind & Creativity"The Dali Museum
Coffee with a Curator - Craig Petersburg: "The Mind & Creativity"
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on a variety of Dali-related topics. The talk is presented by one of The Dali Museum’s Curatorial/Education team or an invited Speaker.
For this entertaining and informative talk, Craig Petersburg, The Dali Museum School and Community Education Manager, explores the creative drive of the human mind through an array of visually engaging images. Following on his 2015 talk about “Dalinian Science, Perception and Brain Research,” Petersburg focuses on how we perceive creativity, from changing historical descriptions to scientific characteristics. Looking to Dali, he reviews techniques for jump-starting creative thinking, and suggests how creativity can improve our lives.
View live presentation: http://ow.ly/WsG030drQFp
For information on upcoming events at The Dali visit: http://thedali.org/events
1. The document discusses creativity and how it is defined as the ability to create or bring something new into existence through imagination and skill.
2. It argues that creativity is inherent in all people, especially children, but that education and societal pressures discourage creativity by imposing limits and penalizing deviations from the standard.
3. Multiple factors contribute to the development of creativity, including opportunities, encouragement, training, motivation and practice. True genius results from extensive training over many years rather than innate talent alone.
The document discusses the traits of creative "right-brain" thinkers. It states that right-brainers are able to make unusual connections and see abstract concepts concretely. They also have a strong appreciation for art and nature, vivid memories of feelings and experiences rather than facts, and a pioneering spirit that allows them to approach problems intuitively rather than relying on existing methods. However, it notes that their sensitivity and impulsiveness can sometimes make them feel isolated from less creative people.
The document outlines various "Synectic Trigger Mechanisms" that can be used to stimulate creative thinking. These include subtracting, repeating, combining, adding, transferring, animating, superimposing, changing scale, substituting, fragmenting, isolating, distorting, disguising, hybridizing, contradicting, parodying, prevaricating, analogizing, empathizing, metamorphosing, symbolizing, mythologizing, and fantasizing elements of the subject. The goal is to break conventions and think in unconventional ways to invent new possibilities. It also briefly outlines the process of creative thinking as identifying the problem, analyzing, ideating, selecting, implementing, and evaluating ideas.
Howard Gardner identified eight multiple intelligences that teachers can appeal to in order to engage all students, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligences. The document discusses each of these intelligences and provides examples of how students with different intelligences may learn best. It also discusses creativity and lists seven keys to turning on creative thinking, such as believing
Simply Connecting Dots - Inspiring lessons from the expert on how to train yo...Saiful Islam
Creativity is a skill and it can be trained and developed with certain method and exercise.
Creativity is not special gift and it is already inside us.
"I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious."
– Einstein, quoted in Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p. 115.
Curio-creative workout is one method that will train your imagination to be more passionately curious and thirsty about knowledge.
Hope you like it
The document discusses various aspects of creativity including definitions, theories, and models. It defines creativity as bringing something new into existence, whether a product, process, or thought. The directed creativity cycle model depicts creativity as involving observation, conceptualization, idea generation, development, and implementation. A three-pronged systems model shows creativity as influenced by person, domain, and social factors. The document also discusses characteristics of creative individuals and impediments to developing creativity in children.
Coffee with a Curator: "The Mind & Creativity"The Dali Museum
Coffee with a Curator - Craig Petersburg: "The Mind & Creativity"
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on a variety of Dali-related topics. The talk is presented by one of The Dali Museum’s Curatorial/Education team or an invited Speaker.
For this entertaining and informative talk, Craig Petersburg, The Dali Museum School and Community Education Manager, explores the creative drive of the human mind through an array of visually engaging images. Following on his 2015 talk about “Dalinian Science, Perception and Brain Research,” Petersburg focuses on how we perceive creativity, from changing historical descriptions to scientific characteristics. Looking to Dali, he reviews techniques for jump-starting creative thinking, and suggests how creativity can improve our lives.
View live presentation: http://ow.ly/WsG030drQFp
For information on upcoming events at The Dali visit: http://thedali.org/events
1. The document discusses creativity and how it is defined as the ability to create or bring something new into existence through imagination and skill.
2. It argues that creativity is inherent in all people, especially children, but that education and societal pressures discourage creativity by imposing limits and penalizing deviations from the standard.
3. Multiple factors contribute to the development of creativity, including opportunities, encouragement, training, motivation and practice. True genius results from extensive training over many years rather than innate talent alone.
The document discusses the traits of creative "right-brain" thinkers. It states that right-brainers are able to make unusual connections and see abstract concepts concretely. They also have a strong appreciation for art and nature, vivid memories of feelings and experiences rather than facts, and a pioneering spirit that allows them to approach problems intuitively rather than relying on existing methods. However, it notes that their sensitivity and impulsiveness can sometimes make them feel isolated from less creative people.
The document outlines various "Synectic Trigger Mechanisms" that can be used to stimulate creative thinking. These include subtracting, repeating, combining, adding, transferring, animating, superimposing, changing scale, substituting, fragmenting, isolating, distorting, disguising, hybridizing, contradicting, parodying, prevaricating, analogizing, empathizing, metamorphosing, symbolizing, mythologizing, and fantasizing elements of the subject. The goal is to break conventions and think in unconventional ways to invent new possibilities. It also briefly outlines the process of creative thinking as identifying the problem, analyzing, ideating, selecting, implementing, and evaluating ideas.
Howard Gardner identified eight multiple intelligences that teachers can appeal to in order to engage all students, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligences. The document discusses each of these intelligences and provides examples of how students with different intelligences may learn best. It also discusses creativity and lists seven keys to turning on creative thinking, such as believing
Simply Connecting Dots - Inspiring lessons from the expert on how to train yo...Saiful Islam
Creativity is a skill and it can be trained and developed with certain method and exercise.
Creativity is not special gift and it is already inside us.
"I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious."
– Einstein, quoted in Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p. 115.
Curio-creative workout is one method that will train your imagination to be more passionately curious and thirsty about knowledge.
Hope you like it
The document discusses various aspects of creativity including definitions, theories, and models. It defines creativity as bringing something new into existence, whether a product, process, or thought. The directed creativity cycle model depicts creativity as involving observation, conceptualization, idea generation, development, and implementation. A three-pronged systems model shows creativity as influenced by person, domain, and social factors. The document also discusses characteristics of creative individuals and impediments to developing creativity in children.
This document outlines the stages of an internship project at Qubit including discovery of brand goals and user needs, planning with risk analysis, designing wireframes and graphics, and building the project with front-end and back-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
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Este documento convida as pessoas a participar de um projeto em 06 de setembro de 2014 no Rio de Janeiro para resgatar vidas para a glória de Deus. Fornece informações de contato e website para mais detalhes sobre o projeto.
El documento describe la estructura urbana de la ciudad de Concepción en Perú. Detalla sus límites y área, así como su sistema vial, equipamientos, zonas, clima y vegetación. Explica que la ciudad se ubica en la margen izquierda del río Mantaro y cubre un área de 18,29 km2. Describe sus límites, principales vías, parques, mercados, iglesias e infraestructura sanitaria y energética.
Build Your Community is an online tool for community management. It helps digital teams and brands to regularly evaluate their digital ecosystem and find gaps. It further helps to plan roadmaps and campaigns.
This document summarizes the education and experience of an undergraduate student at West Virginia University. The student earned a BA in Business Marketing in 2015 with minors in Communications and Sociology, maintaining an overall GPA of 3.0. Relevant work experience includes being a golf caddie and sales manager associate. The student's skills include problem solving, customer service, communication, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and iWork. They bring energy, a desire to succeed, and believe in building trusting relationships within an organization.
Pzazz Retail provides recruitment services for retail clients and has built long-term relationships by delivering results quickly, cost effectively, and with attention to detail. They discuss 5 case studies of clients they have successfully recruited for, including placing over 50 managers for a luxury technology brand over 3 years, placing 23 managers for a high-end accessories retailer over 4 years, and sourcing 15 new hires for a sports retailer in 4 months with no prior relationship. Their approach ensures candidates have the right cultural fit and meet high standards.
The document summarizes the Lal Darwaja Heritage Precinct in Ahmedabad, India. It describes the key heritage and religious monuments in the precinct, including the Sidi Saiyad Mosque and Bhadra Fort. It also outlines some of the dense residential neighborhoods, markets, and institutions located in the area. It discusses issues like traffic congestion and slum housing developing along the fort wall that blocks river access. Finally, it proposes a plan to build a heritage park connected to the riverfront development project to address these issues and better connect the city to the river.
At Millennium1 Solutions, we believe that our people truly do make the difference.
Our diverse teams of passionate and engaged employees show their spirit each day and deliver superior value to our customers.
One team; partnering to make your business better.
We're growing in all 5 of our locations. For more information on our job opportunities, visit: www.millennium1solutions.com/careers
This document is about a startup team called HUB. It lists the names of three team members: Javad Sadeqzadeh, Riddhi Sheth, and Pouria Kh. It ends by thanking the reader.
This document provides recommendations for entertainment destinations in India and abroad such as Goa, Rajasthan, and Northeast India as well as Thailand, Dubai, and Sri Lanka. It also lists potential venues for beach parties like yacht parties, 5-star hotels, pool parties, and boat parties. Some theme ideas mentioned are sports-based, radium carnival, and Arabian. Performers are separated into Indian and international categories and include Indian celebrities as well as dancers, musicians, and variety acts from around the world.
This document discusses open education resources (OER) and outlines some of their benefits and challenges. Some key benefits of OER include reducing costs for students, increasing accessibility of education especially in remote areas, and enabling collaboration among teachers and students worldwide. However, challenges of OER include a lack of created materials, the significant time investment required to create resources, needing education on proper use, and difficulty keeping track of various licenses when developing an entire course using OER.
Simple creativity - what makes people creative?TMI
The document discusses how creativity can be developed in people. It argues that while some individuals may have innate creative personality traits, creativity is also shaped by many environmental factors. It suggests that creativity declines with age if not exercised, as people tend to conform more and consider fewer possibilities. However, creativity can be strengthened through practices like associating with diverse groups, relaxing the mind, and using creative thinking techniques regularly. Developing creativity requires ongoing effort but has no limits other than what we practice.
A workshop given to elementary school teachers about using creative and critical thinking in the elementary school classroom. Strategies, definitions, and tools are provided.
1) The document discusses creating great minds that think differently by bombarding the brain with novelty to force it out of past patterns of thought. Fear is the largest hurdle as it evolved to promote survival through retreat rather than exploration.
2) Intelligence alone does not guarantee better thinking as analysis is different from design thinking. Information can also substitute for thinking.
3) Iconoclasts must overcome social barriers as novel ideas are aversive. The brain prefers familiarity so iconoclasts must make their ideas feel familiar.
4) New ideas come from making unexpected connections between existing concepts or imagining weird combinations. The need for new thinking is discussed along with barriers like assumptions and the need to be
This document discusses creativity and provides steps to foster creativity:
1) Collection of information from various sources, including unconventional sources.
2) Contemplation of the information by examining connections and questioning assumptions.
3) Conception where an idea emerges from associations made during contemplation.
4) Criticism to evaluate the idea by questioning if it solves the problem and can be improved.
Creativity involves persistence, being open-minded, and cultivating traits like curiosity. Organizations must support creativity to foster innovation.
This document outlines the stages of an internship project at Qubit including discovery of brand goals and user needs, planning with risk analysis, designing wireframes and graphics, and building the project with front-end and back-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
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Avyukta Solutions is a technology company based in India that provides outsourced software development resources and offshore development centers. They have over 4 years of experience working with over 50 clients globally. Avyukta offers dedicated development teams and resources through a People as a Service model, allowing clients to outsource work without middlemen at reduced costs compared to local hiring. Their services include web and software development, quality assurance testing, and project management. Clients praise Avyukta for their reliable, high-quality work and responsiveness.
Este documento convida as pessoas a participar de um projeto em 06 de setembro de 2014 no Rio de Janeiro para resgatar vidas para a glória de Deus. Fornece informações de contato e website para mais detalhes sobre o projeto.
El documento describe la estructura urbana de la ciudad de Concepción en Perú. Detalla sus límites y área, así como su sistema vial, equipamientos, zonas, clima y vegetación. Explica que la ciudad se ubica en la margen izquierda del río Mantaro y cubre un área de 18,29 km2. Describe sus límites, principales vías, parques, mercados, iglesias e infraestructura sanitaria y energética.
Build Your Community is an online tool for community management. It helps digital teams and brands to regularly evaluate their digital ecosystem and find gaps. It further helps to plan roadmaps and campaigns.
This document summarizes the education and experience of an undergraduate student at West Virginia University. The student earned a BA in Business Marketing in 2015 with minors in Communications and Sociology, maintaining an overall GPA of 3.0. Relevant work experience includes being a golf caddie and sales manager associate. The student's skills include problem solving, customer service, communication, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and iWork. They bring energy, a desire to succeed, and believe in building trusting relationships within an organization.
Pzazz Retail provides recruitment services for retail clients and has built long-term relationships by delivering results quickly, cost effectively, and with attention to detail. They discuss 5 case studies of clients they have successfully recruited for, including placing over 50 managers for a luxury technology brand over 3 years, placing 23 managers for a high-end accessories retailer over 4 years, and sourcing 15 new hires for a sports retailer in 4 months with no prior relationship. Their approach ensures candidates have the right cultural fit and meet high standards.
The document summarizes the Lal Darwaja Heritage Precinct in Ahmedabad, India. It describes the key heritage and religious monuments in the precinct, including the Sidi Saiyad Mosque and Bhadra Fort. It also outlines some of the dense residential neighborhoods, markets, and institutions located in the area. It discusses issues like traffic congestion and slum housing developing along the fort wall that blocks river access. Finally, it proposes a plan to build a heritage park connected to the riverfront development project to address these issues and better connect the city to the river.
At Millennium1 Solutions, we believe that our people truly do make the difference.
Our diverse teams of passionate and engaged employees show their spirit each day and deliver superior value to our customers.
One team; partnering to make your business better.
We're growing in all 5 of our locations. For more information on our job opportunities, visit: www.millennium1solutions.com/careers
This document is about a startup team called HUB. It lists the names of three team members: Javad Sadeqzadeh, Riddhi Sheth, and Pouria Kh. It ends by thanking the reader.
This document provides recommendations for entertainment destinations in India and abroad such as Goa, Rajasthan, and Northeast India as well as Thailand, Dubai, and Sri Lanka. It also lists potential venues for beach parties like yacht parties, 5-star hotels, pool parties, and boat parties. Some theme ideas mentioned are sports-based, radium carnival, and Arabian. Performers are separated into Indian and international categories and include Indian celebrities as well as dancers, musicians, and variety acts from around the world.
This document discusses open education resources (OER) and outlines some of their benefits and challenges. Some key benefits of OER include reducing costs for students, increasing accessibility of education especially in remote areas, and enabling collaboration among teachers and students worldwide. However, challenges of OER include a lack of created materials, the significant time investment required to create resources, needing education on proper use, and difficulty keeping track of various licenses when developing an entire course using OER.
Simple creativity - what makes people creative?TMI
The document discusses how creativity can be developed in people. It argues that while some individuals may have innate creative personality traits, creativity is also shaped by many environmental factors. It suggests that creativity declines with age if not exercised, as people tend to conform more and consider fewer possibilities. However, creativity can be strengthened through practices like associating with diverse groups, relaxing the mind, and using creative thinking techniques regularly. Developing creativity requires ongoing effort but has no limits other than what we practice.
A workshop given to elementary school teachers about using creative and critical thinking in the elementary school classroom. Strategies, definitions, and tools are provided.
1) The document discusses creating great minds that think differently by bombarding the brain with novelty to force it out of past patterns of thought. Fear is the largest hurdle as it evolved to promote survival through retreat rather than exploration.
2) Intelligence alone does not guarantee better thinking as analysis is different from design thinking. Information can also substitute for thinking.
3) Iconoclasts must overcome social barriers as novel ideas are aversive. The brain prefers familiarity so iconoclasts must make their ideas feel familiar.
4) New ideas come from making unexpected connections between existing concepts or imagining weird combinations. The need for new thinking is discussed along with barriers like assumptions and the need to be
This document discusses creativity and provides steps to foster creativity:
1) Collection of information from various sources, including unconventional sources.
2) Contemplation of the information by examining connections and questioning assumptions.
3) Conception where an idea emerges from associations made during contemplation.
4) Criticism to evaluate the idea by questioning if it solves the problem and can be improved.
Creativity involves persistence, being open-minded, and cultivating traits like curiosity. Organizations must support creativity to foster innovation.
Kiefer Lai 531 Presentation The Cognitive Bias Of Religious BeliefKarl Kiefer
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The document discusses the concept of a "big idea" in advertising. It defines a big idea as a creative concept that executes an advertising strategy and serves as a central theme for a campaign. It notes that once the strategic direction is finalized, advertisers begin searching for the big idea and then executing it creatively. The document provides tips for stimulating creativity and brainstorming techniques, emphasizing that brainstorming should be an unstructured, spontaneous process that generates many ideas without judgment. It stresses thinking in terms of ideas rather than advertising directly.
The document discusses various topics related to thinking and cognition, including:
1) Edward De Bono's "6 Thinking Hats" technique which involves considering a problem from 6 perspectives represented by differently colored hats to reduce conflict and improve thinking.
2) How the left and right hemispheres of the brain are associated with different types of thinking and functions.
3) Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences which includes verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligences.
4) An experiment demonstrating how paradigms or behaviors can be passed down through a group even when the original
This document discusses creativity and innovation concepts including the relationship between creativity and intelligence, the human brain and thinking types, the creativity process, characteristics of creative work, creative thinking techniques, barriers to creativity and strategies for overcoming them, and an organization's role in enhancing creativity and innovation. The key topics covered include the two-hemisphere theory of brain functioning, linear and non-linear models of the creativity process, characteristics of creative work such as fluency, flexibility and originality, and techniques for creative thinking like mind mapping and SCAMPER.
This document discusses the nature of scientific thought and the stages of scientific thinking. It argues that scientific thought involves metaphorical constructions rather than real representations. It describes three stages of scientific thought: the concrete stage, the concrete-abstract stage, and the abstract stage. It also discusses the task of the philosophy of science as psychoanalyzing interests to understand how the mind moves from the real to the artificial and representation to abstraction. Lastly, it emphasizes that concepts in science are arrived at through research and understanding sources, and that the most authentic research challenges pre-existing concepts through methodological critique and understanding of sources.
This document discusses creative and critical thinking skills. It defines creative thinking as applying imagination to learning tasks, noting it involves risk-taking and allowing for mistakes. Critical thinking is defined as reasonable, reflective thinking aimed at deciding what to believe. The document provides strategies for developing both skills, such as brainstorming, questioning assumptions, and considering multiple perspectives. It emphasizes that combining creative and critical thinking enriches the learning process.
Process
Nathaniel Barr, PhD
What is creativity, anyway?
“Creativity is the ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate”
~ Sternberg & Lubart
“Humans are animals that specialize in thinking and knowing, and our extraordinary cognitive abilities have transformed every aspect of our lives. In contrast to our chimpanzee cousins and Stone Age ancestors, we are complex political, economic, scientific and artistic creatures, living in a vast range of habitats, many of which are our own creation.”
-Cecelia Hayes
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Systems view of Creativity
Hennessey & Amabile, 2010,
Annual Review of Psychology
“The term ‘cognition’ refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations... Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon.”
Ulric Neisser, 1967, Cognitive Psychology
5
Spontaneous or deliberate creativity
Spontaneous: Insight
Deliberate: CPS
Meliorism
“humans can, through their interference with processes that would otherwise be natural, produce an outcome which is an improvement over the aforementioned natural one”
In order to interfere with processes and improve them, we need to know how things work…
Understanding your mind
Interfering with the natural way you think
Improvement of performance
Deliberate creativity
J.P. Guilford’s 1950 APA Address
“The neglect of this subject by psychologists is appalling…I examined the index of the Psychological Abstracts for each year since its origin. Of approximately 121,000 titles listed in the past 23 years, only 186 were indexed as definitely bearing on the subject of creativity.”
-Guilford
J.P. Guilford’s 1950 APA Address
“In other words, less than two-tenths of one per cent of the books and articles indexed in the Abstracts for approximately the past quarter century [1925-1950] bear directly on this subject.”
-Guilford
Intelligence
“Some of you will undoubtedly feel that the subject of creative genius has not been as badly neglected as I have indicated, because of the common belief that genius is largely a matter of intelligence and the IQ.”
-Guilford
Galton, Cattell, Cox, Terman, Spearman
Not just intelligence
Guilford’s address marked the “the emergence of a wider psychological interest in the non-intellective components of cognitive performance.”
-Shouksmith, 1970, p. 205
Increased attention
In decade following Guilford’s address, more than 800 records exist
-Arons, 1965
1927-1950: 4.5 papers per year
1950-1960: 80 papers per year
Ways of thinking, not just raw ability
“It took the genius of thinkers like Alex Osborn, an advertising executive, and Sidney Parnes, an academic research, to realize that ...
This document provides an introduction to creative thinking. It defines critical thinking as analyzing claims and arguments to find the correct answer, while creative thinking explores ideas and possibilities. Creativity involves bringing new products, processes, or thoughts into existence. The creative process involves preparation, incubation, intimation, illumination, and verification. Characteristics of creative people include curiosity, seeking problems, enjoying challenges, and being optimistic. The document also provides 12 facts about creative thinking, such as that everyone is born creative; creative thinking requires work and trying new ideas; and that there is rarely one single right answer.
The document discusses the nature and formation of ideas. It states that ideas are the building blocks of knowledge and judgments can express either truth or error. Sensory experiences and the process of abstraction allow the intellect to form ideas by stripping away non-essential qualities and retaining only essential attributes about things. Comprehension involves the attributes that constitute an idea while extension expresses the application of those attributes to individuals.
This document discusses concepts, constructs, and conceptual systems. It defines a concept as a generic idea or thought developed from experiences that are used to make sense of the world. Concepts are the building blocks of thinking. Constructs refer to higher order concepts that group concepts together at a higher level of abstraction. Variables are a type of construct that have different levels or values. Conceptual systems link concepts together to represent relationships and provide understanding of reality by identifying, organizing, and explaining phenomena. The goal of conceptual systems is to achieve understanding to satisfy goals of satisfaction and control.
This document discusses human thought and reason. It explores the nature of thoughts and how rational cognition allows humans to have great intellectual achievements. Rational thought is not different in kind between routine tasks like basic math problems and more complex achievements in science and art. Thoughts can be composed of ideas or concepts, and language allows the communication of thoughts between individuals and the formation of society. Reasoning is an ongoing process of building arguments from basic beliefs through perception.
The document discusses several key aspects of constructivist learning theory:
- Constructivist learning theory holds that learners construct new understandings based on their experiences and interactions.
- The brain is complex and adaptive, shaped by experiences, and capable of growth throughout life.
- Learning involves actively making meaning and patterns from experiences in relation to prior knowledge and emotions.
- Effective education recognizes that the brain perceives parts and wholes simultaneously.
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“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
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* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
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We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
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1. CREATIVITY - is a phenomenon whereby
something new and valuable is created (such as
an idea, a joke, an artistic or literary work, a
painting or musical composition, a solution, an
invention etc.). The ideas and concepts so
conceived can then manifest themselves in any
number of ways, but most often, they become
something we can see, hear, smell, touch, or
taste. The range of scholarly interest in creativity
includes a multitude of definitions and approaches
involving several
disciplines; psychology, cognitive
science,education, philosophy (particularly philoso
phy of
science), technology, theology, sociology, linguisti
cs, business studies, songwriting and economics,
taking in the relationship between creativity and
general intelligence, mental and neurological
processes associated with creativity, the
relationships between personality type and
creative ability and between creativity and mental
health, the potential for fostering creativity through
education and training, especially as augmented
2. by technology, and the application of creative
resources to improve the effectiveness of learning
and teaching processes.
CREATIVENESS - having or showing an ability to make new
things or think of new ideas
: using the ability to make or think of new things : involving the process by
which new ideas, stories, etc., are created
: done in an unusual and often dishonest way.
1
marked by the ability or power to create :
given tocreating <the creative impulse>
2
: having the quality of
something created rather than
imitated : IMAGINATIVE <the creative arts>
3
: managed so as to get around legal or
conventional limits<creative financing>; also :
deceptively arranged so as to conceal or
defraud <creative accounting>
3. — cre·a·tive·ly adverb
— cre·a·tive·ness noun
Creativity works in mysterious and often
paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable,
defining characteristic in some personalities,
but it may also change based on situation and
context. Inspiration and ideas often arise
seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show
up when we most need them, and creative
thinking requires complex cognition yet is
completely distinct from the thinking process.
Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of
creativity. As scientists now understand it,
creativity is far more complex than the right-
left brain distinction would have us think (the
theory being that left brain = rational and
analytical, right brain = creative and
emotional). In fact, creativity is thought to
involve a number of cognitive processes,
4. neural pathways and emotions, and we still
don't have the full picture of how the
imaginative mind works.
And psychologically speaking, creative
personality types are difficult to pin down,
largely because they're complex, paradoxical
and tend to avoid habit or routine. And it's not
just a stereotype of the "tortured artist" --
artists really may be more complicated people.
Research has suggested that creativity involves
the coming together of a multitude of traits,
behaviors and social influences in a single
person.
"It's actually hard for creative people to know
themselves because the creative self is more
complex than the non-creative self," Scott
Barry Kaufman, a psychologist at New York
University who has spent years researching
creativity, told The Huffington Post. "The
things that stand out the most are the
5. paradoxes of the creative self ... Imaginative
people have messier minds."
There are a surprising number of blog posts
about the characteristics of creative people.
However, most of these seem to focus
either on an idealized vision of an artist or
the blog-writer’s idealized self-image! Here
is my take on the characteristics of highly
creative people. However, what I have done
is looked at how creative people think --
based on my understanding of the latest
research -- and applied it to behavior.
It is also worth bearing in mind that
creativity is not all positive. There are good
and bad creative people. Moreover, there
6. seem to be some characteristics of creative
people, such as dishonesty, that are not
very nice. More controversially, some
research has shown a correlation between
creativity and mental illness. (The validity of
this is contested, though.)
The characteristics of highly creative people
are, I believe, the result of two specific
behaviors of such people. Let's look at
those behaviors and how they affect
broader behavior.
Behavior One: Make More Use of Their
Mental Raw Material
It seems that when highly creative people
try to solve a problem or achieve a goal,
7. particularly when the goal is related to their
area of creative strength, they use much
more of their brains than do ordinary people
or, indeed, than even themselves when
they are not focused on a creative task. If
the average person is asked to draw a
picture of a cat, she will most likely think
about the physical appearance of a cat and
replicate it as best she can with pen and
paper. The creative artist, on the other
hand, will think in much more depth. She'll
think not only about the cat, but the
placement of the cat; what the cat is doing;
the lighting; the kind of lines to use and
much more. She may decide to humanize
the cat and give it emotions. Perhaps she'll
8. decide to draw a sexy cat with a human
body wearing an evening gown. Maybe
she'll simply draw a blur representing a cat
in motion.
By using much more of her brain to achieve
her goal, the highly creative person, in
effect, provides herself with more raw
material from which to construct ideas than
the average person. The average person
thinks only about drawings of cats and the
basic characteristics of cats. This limits the
level of creativity she can achieve. The
highly creative person thinks about much
more -- all the while retaining some
connection to cats. It is not surprising that,
9. with so much raw material, she is able to be
more creative in the realization of her ideas.
They Think Before They Act
It takes time to run through all that raw
material in the brain. This is why creative
people tend to think before they act. They
play with the issue in their minds for a time,
looking at a range of possibilities before
choosing a direction. I see this when I work
with creative people. When you give an
average person a creative challenge, she
tends immediately to try and come up with
ideas. But because her mind is too focused
on the issues of the challenge, her ideas
are limited in scope as well. They are
10. conventional, obvious ideas. The highly
creative person, on the other hand, tends to
turn the problem around in her head. She
asks questions, thinks about it in various
scenarios and brings seemingly unrelated
information into her problem solving.
For example, if you ask an averagely
creative person to come up with ideas for
things you could do with a big box (for
example, the kind of box a new washing
machine might be packaged in), she will
immediately think of boxes and their usual
uses: storage, children's toys, perhaps
protection against the elements.
11. A highly creative person would go further.
She might think about using a box as a
children's toy (as would most people), but
she would also think about the kind of
games children might play in a box. She
might imagine climbing into the box and
then wonder what it would be like. She
might think about tearing apart the box and
what to do with the pieces - perhaps use
them for kindling for a fire or raw material
for a sculpture. She might invert the box in
her mind and climb on top of it. What would
happen if she did that, she might wonder.
All of these thoughts enable her to come up
with many more ideas than the averagely
creative person. But these thoughts all
12. come from her mind. She is simply using
more of her mind and its memories,
thoughts and notions in order to construct
ideas.
Incidentally, the highly creative person does
not focus on her left brain or right brain for a
simple reason: it's a myth. Creative people
use a lot of their brains, not one
hemisphere or the other!
Curiosity Is Creative Play
Highly creative people are often cited as
being very curious. This fits with the way
their brains work. Rather than simply collect
information, their brains play with it. One
person might see a horse standing in a field
and think it is a magnificent looking animal.
13. Another more curiously creative person
might wonder what the horse thinks about
all day in the field. She might wonder how
the horse can cope for long hours of
inactivity without a book to read. Or she
might notice that the horse tends to hang
out by the fence that borders another field
where another horse resides. The creative
person might wonder how two animals that
do not have spoken or written language
might bond and what kinds of friendships
horses might have.
Spontaneous Ideas
It is by often asking these questions,
wondering and being curious that creative
14. people come up with spontaneous ideas.
For instance, it is by asking what use could
be made of not-very-sticky glue that some
people discovered Post-Its. Pablo Picasso
wondered how he could depict three-
dimensional reality, as viewed from different
perspectives, and came up with surrealism.
Behavior Two: Less Intellectual Regulation
The dorsolateral prefrontal region of the
brain is responsible for, among other
things,intellectual regulation. It includes the
brain's censorship bureau: the bit of the
brain that prevents us from saying or doing
inappropriate things. It allows us to control
impulses and to choose appropriate
15. courses of behavior according to our
circumstances. It seems that in highly
creative people, this part of the brain
becomes much less active during times of
creation. This makes sense. If you can
reduce the level of thought regulation when
generating creative work (whether ideas,
music, or artwork), then fewer ideas will be
filtered out as inappropriate and more will
be developed and shared.
In averagely creative people, on the other
hand, the dorsolateral prefrontal region
remains more active all the time. It filters
out crazy thoughts; it prevents the person
from saying, doing or even thinking too
much about outrageous ideas. It ensures
16. that averagely creative people think and
behave conventionally. And for many
people, this is preferred. Most people desire
to fit into society and succeed according to
existing rules. It is only creative misfits who
want to succeed by doing things their own
way—by ignoring convention, by having the
audacity to believe they know better than
convention.
For many people, this is a good thing.
Sharing stupid ideas is embarrassing.
People might laugh at the individual who
shares seemingly stupid ideas. People
might question her competence. Moreover,
the averagely creative individual may
17. wonder why she should bother with creative
ideas when more conventional solutions
work well enough. No one is going to be
laughed at or reprimanded for coming up
with a conventional idea that is in keeping
with the norms of the local culture (whether
it is society, a school or a workplace). On
the other hand, sharing a radical idea that
might be stupid could well result in ridicule.
Acting on an idea that could fail miserably
could get you in trouble.
In short, it is safer to be conventional and
incremental in your creativity than it is to be
unconventional and radical in your creativity
–for most people. Highly creative people
18. are different. Their brains are programmed
to worry less about fitting in with
conventions and staying within norms. It is
not that highly creative people are not afraid
of ridicule or criticism (indeed, many artists
are highly sensitive). Rather, it never occurs
to them that others might ridicule their
ideas.
Creative People Are Not as Rebellious
as You Think
This leads to the myth that creative people
are rebellious. I do not believe this is
entirely true. But whereas most people,
thanks to their active dorsolateral prefrontal
cortexes, regulate their thinking and
19. behavior to fit with conventional behavior,
creative people are not so handicapped.
Instead, they follow their own rules or
systems for evaluating ideas and deciding
whether to move forward with those ideas.
These rule systems are often logical, at
least to the creative thinker. But, because
they are not about conforming to social
norms, it makes the creative thinker seem
rebellious. An artist, for example, will not
make a name for herself by studiously
copying current trends. Rather, she will
become famous by being unique. So, if she
makes decisions based on what is
commonplace, ordinary and conforming in
the art world, she will never make a name
20. for herself. However, if she purposely veers
from what is popular in order to carve out
her own, unique style –she may become
famous. She may make a name for herself.
Creative People Are Logical
Another common fallacy about creative
people is that they are not logical, that they
are driven purely by feeling and emotion. I
do not believe this is true. Rather, as noted,
creative people are not handicapped by a
need to conform to social norms. They are
not compelled to be a part of popular
culture. Rather, they are driven by a logic
that suits their needs and is logical to them.
That logic may be based in part on
21. emotions and feelings -- especially in some
artists. But it is a form of logic nevertheless.
All people need to make decisions and
decisions are based on some kind of logic.
The creative artist is no exception. If
anything, by not feeling compelled to fit the
demands of popular culture, the creative
artist needs to be even more logical than
the average person who assumes that if
everyone wears and buys a particular style
jacket, then it is safe to buy and wear such
a jacket.
Creative People Tend to Be Less Honest
Another apparent consequence of having a
relaxed dorsolateral prefrontal region,
22. combined with a brain that is adept at
building ideas, appears to be a reduced
need to be honest. Research by Francesca
Gino and Dan Ariely confirms that, in
general, highly creative people are less
honest than averagely creative people. The
reason for this seems to be that creative
people can use their creativity to justify their
actions in ways that less creative people
cannot do. A lot of people, highly creative
people as well as self-proclaimed creative
people, will balk at this and claim that they
are very honest. And it is true that they
believe that. That is because their creativity
is successful in convincing them that their
behavior is justified.
23. Creative People Are Introverts,
Extroverts, Collaborators, Independent,
Big, Small, Fat, Skinny...
I have seen some bloggers claim that
creative people are introverts; others that
creative people are extroverts. I have heard
that creative work better in groups and that
they work better individually. However, I
have never seen these assumptions
supported in any way. The truth is,
creativity seems to have little to do with how
well one functions socially, one's weight
(though I would assume that being in good
health would help the brain function better)
or other personal characteristics. The truth
is, creative people come in all kinds of
24. shapes, sizes, colors and personalities.
What truly distinguishes them from others is
that they use more of their brains to
generate ideas -- which provides them with
more raw material for building unique ideas
-- and less of their brains to regulate the
development and sharing of those unusual
ideas.
What Do You Think?
What do you think? Is this a fair portrayal of
the characteristics of creative people? If
not, why not? Have I missed anything? I'd
love for you to share your thoughts!