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Mathematics and Life 7 Understanding Creativity

Understanding creativity 


As discussed earlier too, right from the B. Ed. stage, I got deeply interested in educational psychology. During our B. Ed. Course too, Prof. B. K. Passi used to take once a week class on educational psychology. His topic of interest, at our level of course, was creativity. In his jovial style, he used to take us to different facets of creativity. Studied in 1981, I still remember the major things learnt in those interesting classes. Of course, later on I worked on them more seriously during my Ph. D. in creativity research area,


The Walla’s stages of creative problem solving 


  1. Preparation or Seeing the problem. First of all, the creative person sees a problem. He is able to see that there is an issue which needs to be resolved. Like all Inventors, felt difficulty, limitations of what existed and strongly felt the need for a change. The creative person also sees the same issues, problems from an altogether different angle.

  2. Incubation Now that the problem has been identified, the inventor starts thinking of variousts  dimensions, ways to resolve it. This is the hatching or the incubation stage where the idea needs warm support to sustain and grow. That's how and why see Incubators at leading research organisations and those being supported by related industry.

  3. The Illumination or the Aha !. The inventor has got all the dots connected and is ready with a roadmap of the idea execution. He can now visualise and build a working model or prototype of the actual, full scale, model. 

  4. Verification In the startup jargon, this is called POC Proof Of Concept. Now under proper research process, the idea is implemented. The Inventor, using the right research design, conducts a thorough research and accepts the outcome objectively. Either the prototype gets accepted or rejected. In both cases, the Inventor accepts the outcome objectively and proceeds to the next stage. That is go for scaling up if Idea is accepted or tweak the Idea in the context of limitations and launches it again.


More details can be read here 

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/28/the-art-of-thought-graham-wallas-stages/

The link helps further

https://youtu.be/kxOAH-LNLkg







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