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How many of us are waiting for something to happen or for some
obstacle to be removed before embarking on our creative endeavors?
Start using any limitations in your life as a way to mold your creativity,
instead of using them as excuses for not getting started.
Small Spark of Insight v. Sudden Blast of Inspiration
An Excerpt From "How to Be More Creative - A Handbook for
Alchemists"
Here's an excerpt from my ebook, "How to Be More Creative - A
Handbook for Alchemists", which did not actually make it into the
ebook, simply because I wanted to limit the size of the document (it
ended up being 123 pages long).
Excerpt:
R. Keith Sawyer, Washington University psychologist and author of
"Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation", argues that
the sudden creative flash is a byproduct of doing the work. In an
interview for Time magazine he explains that researchers use cleverly
designed experiments to study the "creative flash".
In one experiment, subjects were asked to look at words that came up
one at a time on a computer screen and to think of the one word that
was associated with all of them. After each word they had to give their
best guess. Here's an illustration:
red - nut - bowl - cup - basket - jelly - fresh - cocktail c