What is Creativity?

Creativity

• What does it mean to be creative?
• Who are creative people?
• What do they do? Do they think different?
• How do you know creativity when you see it?

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• Preparation ( Research): Collect information or data.
• Incubation (Percolation): Milling over collected information.
• Illumination (Light Bulb): Aha moment
• Implementation ( Actual Making, creating): Verification.

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• Much creative activity takes place in groups
• Social rather than individual process

Osbornian Brainstorming

Osbornian Brainstorming

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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned.
-Edward De Bono

Convergent Thinking: Logical thinking that evaluates the possible answers & comes up w/ the best answer.
i.e. Sheldon (Big Band Theory)

Divergent Thinking: Ability to find many possible answers to a particular problem.
(i.e. MacGyver)

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