The Nature of Creative DevelopmentStanford University Press, 18/05/2006 - 600 páginas The Nature of Creative Development presents a new understanding of the basis of creativity. Describing patterns of development seen in creative individuals, the author shows how creativity grows out of distinctive interests that often form years before one makes his/her main conributions. The book is filled with case studies that analyze creative developments across a wide range of fields. The individuals examined range from Virginia Woolf and Albert Einstein to Thomas Edison and Ray Kroc. The text also considers contemporary creatives interviewed by the author. Feinstein provides a useful framework for those engaged in creative work or in managing such individuals. This text will help the reader understand the nature of creativity, including the difficulties that one may encounter in working creatively and ways to overcome them. |
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... development. The path to it has encompassed much, much far from evident in the pages to follow. Here I present some notes about my process of development through which I have come to write it. In my sophomore year in college at Stanford ...
... development of individuals engaged in creative endeavors. I define creative development to be the process of development and creative activities of an individual engaged in a creative endeavor, extending over a period of time, usually ...
... of development. I discuss the empirical basis for my description, including sources of information and information about the set of individuals I interviewed, later in this chapter, and list the individuals I interviewed and source ...
... of development. As I describe, individuals' creative interests are generally distinctive, even unique — even within a field and a cohort ofindividuals in a field each individual typically forms a different, distinctive interest; the ...
... and development of interests. Notably, elements and experiences spark creative responses, and individuals build up ... of development. In this section I sketch main 5 features of my description, providing an overview of creative feinstein.
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3 The Development of Creative Interests | 62 |
4 Intrinsic Sources of Interest | 107 |
5 Extrinsic and Strategic Factors in the Development of Creative Interests | 134 |
6 Kinds of Creative Interests | 160 |
7 The Distinctiveness and Breadth of Creative Interests | 182 |
8 Resonances and Connections | 224 |
12 Creativity in Projects | 388 |
13 Multiple Interests | 425 |
Patterns of Projects Projects and Interests | 444 |
Evolution of Interests and Sequences of Interests | 463 |
16 Difficulties in Creative Development | 505 |
Modeling Cultural Development | 522 |
Modeling Individuals in Social Systems | 543 |
Appendix | 549 |
9 Creative Responses | 248 |
10 Exploration of Creative Interests and Creativity Generation Creative Expertise | 293 |
11 The Role of Conceptions of Creative Interests and Associated Values and Principles in Guidance Management of Creative Development at the Met... | 353 |
Bibliography | 561 |
Index | 562 |