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DESIRE:
Whatever
the reason, creativity starts with motivation. The person must want to
create something original. It may be that he wants to solve a problem
that bothers him. He may simply be curious about something he doesn't
understand. He may want to express some personal experience (as in the
arts). He may want to make more money through the introduction of a new
invention, process or technique. Or it may simply be a response to a
change in the environment. Creativity starts with motivation.
PREPARATION:
Information
is gathered. This may be through research, experimentation or exposure
to experience. The process is analytical and it is a way of "making the
strange familiar."
MANIPULATION:
Now,
with all this material before him in hismind, on the workbench or in
piles of notes on slips of paper, the creative person begins to poke at
the material and try to find some new pattern. A "new way of looking at
something familiar."
INCUBATION:
In
most instances, the solution does not appear immediately. The problem
is "dropped," and the person turns to some new problem. For reasons we
do not fully understand, the unconscious mind keeps wrestling with the
problem.
INTIMATION:
A feeling of premonition wells up into the conscious mind a feeling that a solution is about to be found.
ILLUMINATION:
Sometimes the experience incites a "eureka" or "a-ha!" of the surprise of a pleasant discovery.
VERIFICATION:
This
is the process by which the new pattern is examined and valued.
Certainly some creative acts appear to be purely fortuitous. Pure luck
probably plays a greater part in discovery than in invention
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