The How - Creative Process
When scholars began studying creativity more than sixty years ago, they noticed a commonality of process among people generally considered to be creative – artists, inventors, writers, scientists, engineers, pioneers, leaders, etc. Based on the premise that if you can map a process, you can teach the process, researchers devised a way to teach deliberate creative process – deliberate creativity.
Many self-improvement efforts involve learning a new process. Through practice, we can integrate the process until it becomes second nature. When we organize our thinking along proven creative processes, we can unleash the creativity within each of us. Can we all be DaVincis? No, but that is no reason to leave our personal creativity untapped. Our creativity is unique. But it is there. Even for the people who don’t think they are creative.
Books
Change by Design, Tim Brown (Harper Business, 2009)
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step, Edward de Bono (Harper & Row, 1970)
Creative Leadership: Skills that Drive Change, Gerard Puccio, Mary Murdock, Marie Mance (Sage Publications, 2007)
How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Gelb (Delacorte Press, 1998)
Thinkertoys, Michael Michalko (MJF Books, 2006)
To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski (St. Martin’s, 1994)
Online
The name of the video is “6 Characteristics of Truly Creative People” but it is REALLY about creative process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgCdsERkqrc
When scholars began studying creativity more than sixty years ago, they noticed a commonality of process among people generally considered to be creative – artists, inventors, writers, scientists, engineers, pioneers, leaders, etc. Based on the premise that if you can map a process, you can teach the process, researchers devised a way to teach deliberate creative process – deliberate creativity.
Many self-improvement efforts involve learning a new process. Through practice, we can integrate the process until it becomes second nature. When we organize our thinking along proven creative processes, we can unleash the creativity within each of us. Can we all be DaVincis? No, but that is no reason to leave our personal creativity untapped. Our creativity is unique. But it is there. Even for the people who don’t think they are creative.
Books
Change by Design, Tim Brown (Harper Business, 2009)
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step, Edward de Bono (Harper & Row, 1970)
Creative Leadership: Skills that Drive Change, Gerard Puccio, Mary Murdock, Marie Mance (Sage Publications, 2007)
How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Gelb (Delacorte Press, 1998)
Thinkertoys, Michael Michalko (MJF Books, 2006)
To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski (St. Martin’s, 1994)
Online
The name of the video is “6 Characteristics of Truly Creative People” but it is REALLY about creative process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgCdsERkqrc