The Mind's Best WorkOver the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote "Kubla Khan" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his "Raven" was worked out "with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." |
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... creating . But what about the mystery of Easter Island ? Consider just a piece of it : the erection of the stone figures . After some thought , Thor Heyerdahl adopted a clever strategy . He told the mayor of the island , a descendant of ...
... creating . But what about the mystery of Easter Island ? Consider just a piece of it : the erection of the stone figures . After some thought , Thor Heyerdahl adopted a clever strategy . He told the mayor of the island , a descendant of ...
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... creating in the arts and sciences is a natural comprehensible ex- tension and orchestration of ordinary everyday abilities of percep- tion , understanding , memory , and so on , just as the erecting of the Easter Island statues was a ...
... creating in the arts and sciences is a natural comprehensible ex- tension and orchestration of ordinary everyday abilities of percep- tion , understanding , memory , and so on , just as the erecting of the Easter Island statues was a ...
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... creating in terms of commonplace resources of mind and some of their familiar and less familiar operating characteristics , but not particularly to explain those resources themselves . This should be a relief to the reader , and ...
... creating in terms of commonplace resources of mind and some of their familiar and less familiar operating characteristics , but not particularly to explain those resources themselves . This should be a relief to the reader , and ...
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... creating means explaining how the originality and the quality " get into " or " get put into " the developing creative outcome during the making process . The definitions of creating and creative are admittedly vague , but inevitably ...
... creating means explaining how the originality and the quality " get into " or " get put into " the developing creative outcome during the making process . The definitions of creating and creative are admittedly vague , but inevitably ...
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... creating . The revised proposition , arriving near the end of a section , is another state- ment on the same issue , sometimes a direct contradiction of the original proposition and sometimes a qualification of it . The text of the ...
... creating . The revised proposition , arriving near the end of a section , is another state- ment on the same issue , sometimes a direct contradiction of the original proposition and sometimes a qualification of it . The text of the ...
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