004 - STIMULATING YOUR CREATIVITY


STIMULATING YOUR CREATIVITY
(I am reshaping this blog because it is relevant in 2018)

 A book I just became aware of and ordered arrived yesterday and I started reading it this morning as a daily read/study for the next few days to a week or so.

 STIMULATED!
by Andrew Pek and Jeannine McGlade

 I became aware of them over the internet as creativity consultants: product design/problem solving focus.

 Stimulation is one of the factors

 Timing is another
Need/Desire...
Challenge
and many other factors

 ...all come into play to yield, produce, spark, explode our creativity: amount, level, type, energy etc.

 These are some of the variables I have discovered, learned and experienced over the 30 years I have CONSCIOUSLY explored, examined and focused on creativity and creative thinking.

 Some times it is just DUMB LUCK!

 One of the early writers about creativity and creative processes described a 4-step process being required for creativity
Graham Wallas

 Preparation....prepare....work, work, work until you can't seem to work any more or you don't feel/believe/think you are getting anywhere

 Incubation....then you walk away, go to sleep, travel, work on something totally different.

 Inspiration/Eureka!...then the AHA!, the breakthrough happens...such as when I work up this morning with my mind flying in multiple ways simultaneously.

 Implementation...then you apply the new concept, the idea, the new information, the new answers or simply another concept, idea, info, answer you hadn't tried before

 working definition...

 creativity...equals the generation/discovery of new ideas or the combination of old ideas in a new way

 At CPSI/CEF/ACRE and other conferences that have spun off or been created by alumni of CPSI/CEF where we teach the Osborn-Parnes 6 step Creative Problem Solving Process we attempt to help people become CREATIVE WHEN THEY NEED TO BE/BECOME by following the six steps...

 O-F-P-I-S-A

 1. objective finding/discovering/creating
2. fact finding/discovering/creating
3. problem finding/discovering/creating
4. idea finding/discovering/creating
5. solution finding/discovering/creating
6. action/acceptance finding/discovering/creating

 In other words....causing that creative spark to happen more often when you want it to not when it JUST HAPPENS.

 There is no guarantee with all our processes, tools, techniques, tricks or stimuli that a GREAT BREAKTHROUGH will be SPARKED. At least you can cause yourself to be more
creative-like than you may feel by using the processes, tools, techniques, tricks or stimuli.

 I feel an article, blog, book escaping through my fingers.

 this has been fun

 time to go for a walk for fresh air, exercise and to help spark my sluggish body to burn more fat while strengthening some muscles or creating new ones.

 Best wishes from

 Willingly Wondering Wandering in Search of Wisdom Alan

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