Last updated: 4/11/03
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Agenda 4 for Creativity Class Meeting on April 11

1. What do we know about creativity?
   1. What it is (more or less): something new that solves a problem or meets a need
   2. Earlier ideas
      1. "From the gods"
      2. "Great men"
      3. Creative Hero
   3. Current - triangular relationship: creative person, field, domain. Anyone can be creative (influence of TS Eliot).
   4. Creative process
      1. Preparation
      2. Incubation
      3. Aha! (Unconscious - influence of Freud)
      4. Refinement
   5. Csikszentmihalyi - ten paradoxical traits (Creativity Pp 58 - 76) (introversion Vs extroversion)
   6. Robinson and Stern - Corporate Creativity Pg 12 Six essenials
   7. Gardner - Creating Minds
      1. Intrinsic motivation
      2. Pg 27 - age dependence
      3. Pg 29
         1. Child and adult
         2. Creator and others - managing a creative career
         3. Ten-year rule
         4. Cognitive and affective support
         5. Faustian bargain
      4. Definition of creative person - Pg 35. Moving beyond the field but bringing the field along
      5. Creative in a domain - Pg 35
      6. Creativity is inherently a communal or cultural judgment - Pg 36
   8. Becoming creative - Csikszentmihalyi Chpt 14
      1. Find and cultivate what you like
      2. Create time
      3. "Complexify" - why?
   9. Flow - "the drug," but there are bigger addictions here
2. Application
   1. An example - ISP 5660
      1. Intellectual then affective
      2. Intellectual pursuit? No - change my life!
      3. Creative hero Vs triangle
   2. What could this course do?
      1. Find what you like but be flexible
      2. Try innovation
      3. Creative project
   3. Other hints
      1. how to get started
      2. first steps
      3. rewarding yourself
      4. combining patience with impatience
   4. What is most important to you?