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Francisco Arlindo AlvesDescreve não só o processo criativo e a natureza de pessoas criativas, mas também o tipo de ambiente que promove a criatividade.
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Jelmer EversLong lost Isaac Asmimov essay on creativity from 1959 - http://t.co/GjPa3PLw97
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22 Oct 14
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A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.
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Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.)
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My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. The creative person is, in any case, continually working at it. His mind is shuffling his information at all times, even when he is not conscious of it. (The famous example of Kekule working out the structure of benzene in his sleep is well-known.)
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If a single individual present is unsympathetic to the foolishness that would be bound to go on at such a session, the others would freeze. The unsympathetic individual may be a gold mine of information, but the harm he does will more than compensate for that. It seems necessary to me, then, that all people at a session be willing to sound foolish and listen to others sound foolish.
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Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues.
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How do people get new ideas?
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But what you needed was someone who
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had the ability to make a cross-connection.
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That is the crucial point that is the rare characteristic that must be found. Once the cross-connection is made, it becomes obvious.
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A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.
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Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits.
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The presence of others can only inhibit this process, since creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones, which you naturally do not care to display.
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To feel guilty because one has not earned one’s salary because one has not had a great idea is the surest way, it seems to me, of making it certain that no great idea will come in the next time either.
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21 Oct 14
Javier PastorPublished for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | MIT Technology Review http://t.co/MeTXSsc1VK
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cross-connection.
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Making the cross-connection requires a certain daring. It must, for any cross-connection that does not require daring is performed at once by many and develops not as a “new idea,” but as a mere “corollary of an old idea.”
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Kenyth ZengIsaac Asimov's unpublished essay on creativity should be required reading for anyone hoping to foster innovation: http://t.co/oUr0ZwzOin
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Mark SheppardPublished for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity http://t.co/Ic63wt6YrW
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It describes not only the creative process and the nature of creative people but also the kind of environment that promotes creativity
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There is a great deal in common there. Both traveled to far places, observing strange species of plants and animals and the manner in which they varied from place to place. Both were keenly interested in finding an explanation for this, and both failed until each happened to read Malthus’s “Essay on Population.”
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Obviously, then, what is needed is not only people with a good background in a particular field, but also people capable of making a connection between item 1 and item 2 which might not ordinarily seem connected.
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But what you needed was someone who studied species, read Malthus, and had the ability to make a cross-connection.
That is the crucial point that is the rare characteristic that must be found. Once the cross-connection is made, it becomes obvious.
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But why didn’t he think of it? The history of human thought would make it seem that there is difficulty in thinking of an idea even when all the facts are on the table. Making the cross-connection requires a certain daring. It must, for any cross-connection that does not require daring is performed at once by many and develops not as a “new idea,” but as a mere “corollary of an old idea.”
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. It seems the height of unreason to suppose the earth was round instead of flat, or that it moved instead of the sun, or that objects required a force to stop them when in motion, instead of a force to keep them moving, and so on.
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A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.
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Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits
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My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required
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It seems to me then that the purpose of cerebration sessions is not to think up new ideas but to educate the participants in facts and fact-combinations, in theories and vagrant thoughts
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