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12-The creative process
Some people believe that creative individuals have inherited a
lot of gifts and that they are talented or even genius. It's a wrong
idea. Creativity is not a matter of innate potential. As many
things in life, creativity is the result of hard work and most of all
serious training.
The creative process follows four different steps:
-Preparation: To train your mind.
-Incubation: To set back from the problem.
-Illumination: The idea arises in the mind like a sudden flash.
-Validation: You have to check the validity of the idea.
We can sum up this process with the following drawing 1 :

There are some other process but we shall adopt this one. The
next reading will give you a history of the various views of the
creative process, starting with the ancient greeks!
We shall now examine for each steps, what are the best
appropriate techniques

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