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What is Creativity? The Definition, history and science of creativity

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What is creativity? What makes some ideas and things creative, while others are not? What is the definition of creativity? What is the history of creativity? And why is creativity important? What is the definition of Creativity? Creativity can be hard to define.

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Functional fixedness bias, and how to overcome it

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As described by Anthony McCaffrey in 2012 , the GPT asks a series of two questions to participants when they are being challenges with describing an object: “Can this be decomposed further?”. There are other variants of fixedness which also limit innovation thinking, such as structural or relational fixedness.

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What is a creative “Flow State”? And how can I achieve it?

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What makes it possible for high performance athletes, aritists, scientists and innovators to effortlessly produce great, creative work? The history of creative flow. Inner clarity and knowing what needs to be done and how to achieve it. You may have even experienced it yourself. This is what psychologists now call a Flow State.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

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The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits. With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

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While homosexuality has often been associated with the arts and creativity, it has never been as openly accepted within the scientific community. An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale.

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Artificial creativity (A.C.): Can a computer be creative? It’s scarily close

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In 2013, I wrote a breakthrough article on the nascent examples of computers beginning to generate ideas in a way similar to human creativity. Here I revisit the article with all-new evidence showing how close we are to artificial creativity. Over the passing years, this ability has grown by leaps and bounds. So what comes next?

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Creative Thinking – My Vital Source of Creative Inspiration

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I used to think creative inspiration came from inside. As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. – Mike Brown.