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Reverse Brainstorming
Reverse (negative) brainstorming
Reverse brainstorming
This method is combining brainstorming and reversal techniques.
Theoretical background: its negativity can be advantageous and seen in a positive light.
Reverse brain-storming...
The Best Creativity Techniques
Creative problem solving and
creativity techniques
I. Three pillars of activating creativity
1. Classical Brainstorming (Alex Osborn).
2. Synectics (William Gordon).
3. Morphological Analysis (Fritz Zwicky).
II. The classic methods...
Synectics
Synectics: Essence, Principles and Stages
Etimology: The term Synectics was derived from the Greek words syn –meaning “ bringing together” and ectikos meaning “diversity”, so...
Classical Brainstorming
Brainstorming: essence, rules and steps
1. Author
Alex Osborn (May 24, 1888 Bronx, New York – May 5, 1966 Buffalo, New York). American сreativity theorist and advertising...
Философские основания чань-буддийской живописи
Метафизика чаньского художественного творчества
В буддизме, а тем более в чань буддизме, никогда специально не ставились задачи философского осмысления мира, создания взаимосогласованных категориальных систем и...
Alternative thinkers about creativity
Outstanding alternative thinkers and authors about creativity
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life...
Creative solution to personal problem
A Marine was in the service. One day he received a letter from his girlfriend back home:
Dear Ricky,
I can no longer continue our relationship....
Wolf, Goat, and Cabbage Puzzle
A peasant has to cross a river with а wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. The boat can carry the peasant with only one...
Fire on Island
You are on an island, which is densely overgrown with dry grass and bushes.
Suddenly you see that at the one end of the island...
The other side of Things
A father was busy with his work while his little daughter constantly distracted him in an attempt to make him play with her.
To keep...
Successful interview
Interviewer at a reputed business school said to the student "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really...
Spartacus creative solution
Spartacus had been surrounded and locked by the Roman cohorts at the top of Mount Vesuvius. A huge army stood in front of him and a deep chasm...
Leaders about creativity
Outstanding politician and economical leaders about creativity
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander Great (July 21, 356 –June 11, 323 BC), king of...
Modern authors and speakers about creativity
Modern authors and motivational speekers about creativity
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often...
Creativity experts about creativity
Creativity quotes from creativity experts
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the...
Psychologists – creativity theorists about creativity
Creativity quotes from famous creativity theorists
To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually.
Joy Paul Guilford (March 7, 1897– November...
Psychologists and psychiatrists about creativity
Creativity quotes from psychologists and psychiatrists
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James (January 11, 1842 – August...
Scientists about Creativity and Science
Great scientists and inventors about creativity
Life is short, the art long (Ars longa, vita brevis).
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC), ancient Greek physician
After...
Composers about creativity
Great musician and composers about creativity
I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.
George Frideric Handel (February 23, 1685...
Writers and poets about creativity
Great writers and poets about creativity
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall...
Painters and sculptors about creativity
Great artists, painters and sculptors about creativity
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than...
Philosophers about Creativity
Great philosophers about creativity
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed...
Geniuses and celebrities about Creativity
Genius on Creativity
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual...
Mechanisms of Creative Dialogue with the World
Sergey L. Markov. Mechanisms of Creative Dialogue with the World
Markov, S. L. (1997) Mechanisms of Creative Dialogue With the World. Paper presented at the...