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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... solving of 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 ...
... solving of 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 ...
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... solving and visual percep- tion ; the Spencer Foundation for underwriting research on every- day reasoning ; and the Guggenheim Foundation for the year's fellowship during which I began the writing that evolved into this book . I add ...
... solving and visual percep- tion ; the Spencer Foundation for underwriting research on every- day reasoning ; and the Guggenheim Foundation for the year's fellowship during which I began the writing that evolved into this book . I add ...
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... solving , and on efforts designed to teach problem - solving skills , to name just a few . Many pages will be spent reviewing and interpreting such studies . But I will not go deeply into the technical theories 4 THE MIND'S BEST WORK.
... solving , and on efforts designed to teach problem - solving skills , to name just a few . Many pages will be spent reviewing and interpreting such studies . But I will not go deeply into the technical theories 4 THE MIND'S BEST WORK.
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