Seems
like fun.
Creativity is a mental
and social process involving the generation of new ideas
or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind
between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fueled
by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.
An alternative conception of creativeness is that it is
simply the act of making something new.
From a scientific point of view, the products of creative
thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are
usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness.
Some students of creativity have emphasized an element
of chance in the creative process. Linus Pauling, asked
at a public lecture how one creates scientific theories,
replied that one must endeavor to come up with many ideas,
then discard the useless ones... |
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