The Creative Brain
Author: Ned Herrmann
Ordinary people think creative people are awesome. In fact, everybody has creative abilities but people block their creativity by themselves because they don’t want to take risks and do something wrong.
All human beings are able to be creative, it’s innate. We don’t need to be a genius. Just a solution to a mundane problem can be creative. Our creativity can always be reaccessed.
There are three keys to creativity: Understand the creative process and its parts and how the four steps of knowing occur at each part. Understand what obstructs each step at each part. Try to increase creative awareness all the time.
Creativity’s source is brain. Creativity involves both invention and action. Ideas can come very fast but action can take a long time. Ideas can come out of only one part of the brain but action needs mental capabilities in all parts of our brain. Action can involve some different steps while ideas can come in a second.
Graham Wallas described four stages for creativity process. The first stage is preparation stage where we define the problem, search for solutions. The second stage is incubation stage. We just leave the problem and let our minds rest. The third stage is illumination stage. At this stage ideas arise. The last stage is verification. At this stage we search whether the idea achieves to solve the problem or not.
The key to living creatively is passion. Children’s passion and curiosity is the source of their creativity. We can re-learn a lot of things from children. Passionate people are enthusiastic, energetic and much more creative.
Ordinary people think creative people are awesome. In fact, everybody has creative abilities but people block their creativity by themselves because they don’t want to take risks and do something wrong.
All human beings are able to be creative, it’s innate. We don’t need to be a genius. Just a solution to a mundane problem can be creative. Our creativity can always be reaccessed.
There are three keys to creativity: Understand the creative process and its parts and how the four steps of knowing occur at each part. Understand what obstructs each step at each part. Try to increase creative awareness all the time.
Creativity’s source is brain. Creativity involves both invention and action. Ideas can come very fast but action can take a long time. Ideas can come out of only one part of the brain but action needs mental capabilities in all parts of our brain. Action can involve some different steps while ideas can come in a second.
Graham Wallas described four stages for creativity process. The first stage is preparation stage where we define the problem, search for solutions. The second stage is incubation stage. We just leave the problem and let our minds rest. The third stage is illumination stage. At this stage ideas arise. The last stage is verification. At this stage we search whether the idea achieves to solve the problem or not.
The key to living creatively is passion. Children’s passion and curiosity is the source of their creativity. We can re-learn a lot of things from children. Passionate people are enthusiastic, energetic and much more creative.
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1 comment:
You have summarized the article well, Sinem. Try and introduce your summary with one of the example ways we looked at in class, rather than just state the autor's name. We will be doing more practice with summarizing iin class soon!
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