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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... particular it delineates and thus shows how individuals' ideas, insights, and contributions are rooted in creative interests they form, explore, and strive to develop creatively, including projects they undertake based in their ...
... particular defining creative interests as intermediate level conceptual structures; I describe what I mean by this in the next chapter. Distinctiveness and breadth are powerful in combination, and jointly they are integral to the ...
... particular aspects of them — that connect in some way with one of their interests. Second, they are central for individuals' processing in the wake ofan initial response, triggering associations and creative links of thinking leading to ...
... particular, it provides the basis for describing a core process of cultural development. I sketch this core process here; I discuss development of models of cultural development rooted in the description in this book in Chapter 17. The ...
... particular some of the individuals famous for their contributions, for whom I have reconstructed what I believe their interest to have been) their descriptions are stated in language in which they 14Generic events are the most basic ...
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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 |