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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... theory , make music in a way that moves listeners down the ages , has been thought beyond the reach of human understanding , stubbornly inscrutable , essentially in- effable . Moreover , creativity has had its von Danikens . Plato was ...
... theory , make music in a way that moves listeners down the ages , has been thought beyond the reach of human understanding , stubbornly inscrutable , essentially in- effable . Moreover , creativity has had its von Danikens . Plato was ...
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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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D. N. Perkins. But I will not go deeply into the technical theories designed to account for the details of such superficially simple acts as walking or talking or remembering . The concern is not to explain these everyday activities ...
D. N. Perkins. But I will not go deeply into the technical theories designed to account for the details of such superficially simple acts as walking or talking or remembering . The concern is not to explain these everyday activities ...
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... theory or an original dance . There is no way that an account of " creating " or " creative " can get explicit about ... theories , puns , performances , gardens , conversations , dreams , desserts . A creative way of life need not be ...
... theory or an original dance . There is no way that an account of " creating " or " creative " can get explicit about ... theories , puns , performances , gardens , conversations , dreams , desserts . A creative way of life need not be ...
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... theories . Also , there will be some attention to puzzles of various sorts because they provide a controlled way of investigating certain aspects of creativity . This choice does not im- ply that everything done within the arts and the ...
... theories . Also , there will be some attention to puzzles of various sorts because they provide a controlled way of investigating certain aspects of creativity . This choice does not im- ply that everything done within the arts and the ...
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