Creativity Encyclopedia: A Treasure Trove of Tips and Tricks to Inspire Personal and Organizational Creativity: A Treasure Trove of Tips and Tricks to Inspire Personal and Organizational Creativity

Author: Harrington
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This book systematically organizes popular and effective methods and techniques according to its own system, drawing on the author's rich experience. It uses numerous diagrams, cartoons, illustrations, and examples to guide readers, combined with lively and fluent language, making it indeed a valuable guide for creativity development. Although the book introduces various definitions of creativity from experts and scholars from different perspectives, defining creativity based on its constituent elements is also an important approach. We believe that the main elements constituting creativity are: a certain knowledge base and an investigative spirit that is not bound by books or established authority. These two elements form the fundamental contradiction in creativity cultivation: on one hand, we must learn and draw knowledge from education to keep the creative wellspring of our minds from drying up; on the other hand, as the author of this book points out, the education that teaches us how to navigate this complex world hinders our ability to propose truly creative solutions. Since answers are already provided by others, there is less need to constantly apply creativity to seek them. To resolve this contradiction, methods and techniques for training and stimulating creativity under existing knowledge conditions have emerged.