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The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 1 views

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  • Treffinger’s Creative Problem-Solving method
  • The home-game version of this means no longer encouraging kids to spring straight ahead to the right answer. When UGA’s Runco was driving through California one day with his family, his son asked why Sacramento was the state’s capital—why not San Francisco or Los Angeles? Runco turned the question back on him, encouraging him to come up with as many explanations as he could think of.
  • They didn’t stop asking questions because they lost interest: it’s the other way around. They lost interest because they stopped asking questions.
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  • The new view is that creativity is part of normal brain function. Some scholars go further, arguing that lack of creativity—not having loads of it—is the real risk factor. In his research, Runco asks college students, “Think of all the things that could interfere with graduating from college.” Then he instructs them to pick one of those items and to come up with as many solutions for that problem as possible. This is a classic divergent-convergent creativity challenge.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 06 Aug 10
     
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