The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.
The creative processes are so mysterious.
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
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