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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... insight problems ; to Bob Hodgman and Marshall Kirk for helping with several studies and library research on creativity ; to David Grosof and Ashok Nimgade for library research on teaching thinking skills ; to Mark Smith for in ...
... insight problems ; to Bob Hodgman and Marshall Kirk for helping with several studies and library research on creativity ; to David Grosof and Ashok Nimgade for library research on teaching thinking skills ; to Mark Smith for in ...
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... insights about symbol use in human thought and artifacts ; Paul Kolers for many lively conversations , several ... insight and encouragement ; the National Science Foundation for funding investigations of problem solving and visual ...
... insights about symbol use in human thought and artifacts ; Paul Kolers for many lively conversations , several ... insight and encouragement ; the National Science Foundation for funding investigations of problem solving and visual ...
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D. N. Perkins. as well as triggering several insights that have made their way into these pages , and to my whole family for their forbearance during the busy evenings and weekends behind the words . collected here . CONTENTS & A Parable 1 ...
D. N. Perkins. as well as triggering several insights that have made their way into these pages , and to my whole family for their forbearance during the busy evenings and weekends behind the words . collected here . CONTENTS & A Parable 1 ...
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... insight and conjured the energy to paint a masterpiece , devise a revolutionary scientific theory , make music in a way that moves listeners down the ages , has been thought beyond the reach of human understanding , stubbornly ...
... insight and conjured the energy to paint a masterpiece , devise a revolutionary scientific theory , make music in a way that moves listeners down the ages , has been thought beyond the reach of human understanding , stubbornly ...
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