Passage problem
A car with a container set in the body drives the road that leads under the railway bridge. Just before the bridge the driver...
A bus stop pick-up riddle
While driving on your way home, you pass by a bus stop and see among the people waiting for the bus, an old lady...
Brilliant Simplicity – Example of Creative Problem Solving
One Major Research Institute has been tasked to measure the temperature of weevil, a pest beetle.
Long-term investigations and the use of expensive equipment were...
The Main Stages of Creativity
Model of the creative process
The main stages of creativity and creative problem solving
1. Saturation (preparation).
2. Incubation.
3. Illumination (Inspiration).
(H. Helmholtz, 1891, 1896).
1. Random combinations.
2. Selection
(A....
Universal mechanisms of Creativity
Universal mechanisms of creative dialogue with the World
The hierarchical system of mechanisms is outlined to account for the creative dialogue that may occur between...
The spinning girl
What direction is the girl spinning in,
clockwise or counter-clockwise?
If you turn your gaze to the shadow, then at the same moment, the direction of...
Damage in favor
An absolute failure lived in Las Vegas.
He was always losing. Suddenly, he married a beautiful woman - millionaire. They started to visit casino...
“AHA and” HAHA” reactions (a)
1. What has two hands and a face, but no arms and legs?
2. What has a neck, but no head?
3. Why did the man...
Сreativity as the unfolding and embodiment of the Absolute
1. Сreativity as the unfolding of the Absolute, a universal process of evolution and Creativity of Nature
1.1. Creativity as an embodiment of the Absolute...
Inventive General
During a momentous battle, a Japanese general decided to attack even though his army was greatly outnumbered. He was confident they would win, but...
The Light Switches Riddle
There are three switches outside a closed room. There are three lamps inside the room. You can flip the switches as much as you...
Creativity as the creation and implementation of Possibilities
Creativity as the embodiment of Possibilities
Creativity as an realization of the "Mystical potency" (Laozi, 6th c. BC); Creativity as "feeding the life" (shang yang), the realization of the...