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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... means of essentially the same psychological mechanisms , as the ordinary everyday act of understanding a Woody Allen joke . Many moments of discovery can be understood as exercising essentially the same psychological mechanisms that ...
... means of essentially the same psychological mechanisms , as the ordinary everyday act of understanding a Woody Allen joke . Many moments of discovery can be understood as exercising essentially the same psychological mechanisms that ...
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... like - but that's how it works . Einstein is said to have said something of this sort : " The chemical analysis of a cup of soup should not be expected to taste like the soup " But what is creating ? I mean the process of A PARABLE 5.
... like - but that's how it works . Einstein is said to have said something of this sort : " The chemical analysis of a cup of soup should not be expected to taste like the soup " But what is creating ? I mean the process of A PARABLE 5.
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D. N. Perkins. But what is creating ? I mean the process of producing out- comes that we normally judge to be creative . Then what is meant by " creative " ? A familiar and often repeated definition will do well here : creative means ...
D. N. Perkins. But what is creating ? I mean the process of producing out- comes that we normally judge to be creative . Then what is meant by " creative " ? A familiar and often repeated definition will do well here : creative means ...
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