The Secrets of the Creative Person
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Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting).
Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing.If you have ideas but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative.
“Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.” – Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Is this possible in business? I believe so, but you have to be willing to take risks and progress through discomfort to get to the finish line.
“A product is creative when it is (a) novel and (b) appropriate. A novel product is original not predictable. The bigger the concept, and the more the product stimulates further work and ideas, the more the product is creative.”
—Sternberg & Lubart, Defying the Crowd
Desmond Gahan
Desmond Gahan BA., (Dip. Applied Psychology) is the author and publisher of many non fiction books. His special area is psychology and psychopathology. He lives in Dublin Ireland.
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The Secrets of the Creative Person - Desmond Gahan
Chapter 6:
Get Rid Of Either/Or Thinking . 30.
Chapter 7:
Business Ideas from Competitors . 35.
Related imageChapter 8:
How to Keep Track of Ideas . 41.
Chapter 9:
Sometimes You Must Take a Break . 45.
Chapter 10:
Get Off Your A** and Do Something . 49.
Foreword
What does creativity mean to you? To most individuals, they refer to the arts – writing and music for instance. However creativity applies to everything – anything fresh, anything that's never been created earlier, stems from the creative mental faculty.
The Secrets Behind Creativity
Hidden Ways To Unlock Innovative Ideas
Chapter 1:
Two Types of Imagination for Creativity
Synopsis
What are your goals, your jobs, and your hobbies? Can you
determine how creation plays a role in that? Do you know that
there are 2 different kinds of imagination that play a role in
creativity?
What Are The 2 Forms Of Imagination?
Creative Imagination
Creative imagination, which lies on the far side of our logical mind
and our ego, is where all genuinely new ideas derive from. When a
scientist devises something the globe has never seen before, he's
using creative imagination. Consider it as new clay.
Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Bell, and Elmer Gates were splendid
inventors who learned to tap into creative imagination. Mr. Thomas
Edison, for instance, was reported as having tested more than ten
thousand ideas for his electric-light bulb using his synthetic
imagination alone, and they all failed. It was only when he tapped
into his creative imagination that he carried off the perfect electric-light bulb.
Synthetic Imagination
What is this synthetic imagination? This is the imagination delivered
of education and experience. You apply your mind to alter things
around, view them from another angle, or rearrange existing stuff to
form something new
. But nothing really new ever came from
synthetic imagination.
How much of what you accomplish has never been witnessed before
(by you, at any rate)? When you author a fresh book, are you
regrouping stories or legends you’ve seen before, substituting
characters, hacking and exchanging? When you write a new musical
composition, are you truly only changing one of your preferred
childhood songs? When you do a