Why this artefact was included
After completing the short course I wanted to understand creative thinking from another perspective. Listening to the Andrew Huberman Podcast episode helped me to have a more nuanced understanding compared to the more structured and straight forward way I learned in the short course.
PODCAST EPISODE
Huberman, A. (2022). The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation | Huberman Lab Podcast 103. YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/KPlJcD-o-4Q?si=Jto_8LS4NgXCaHQu [Accessed 3 Nov. 2024].
Creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced
What is Creativity? 1. Creativity has to reveal something fundamental about us or the world in a way the delights thrills and surprises us however we should be aware what the fundamental rule is. 2. It is combining things or not combining things in a way that appears novel. For example Escher art. Our brain does not pay attention to repetitive patterns but rather to unusual things that stand out. Escher's art invert the fundamental way our brains work.
Day and Night by M.C. Escher (1938),
Creative ideas and divergent thinking? 1. Two elements go into coming up with a creative idea and then implementing and/or developing into something real. 2. Divergent thinking: Taking a known object or event in the world or sport or colour etc. and asking yourself how many things it can be. The basis of divergent thinking: more that one idea can be correct. It is important to note that you are exploring ideas you have already had, so if you want to be creative you need to forge for information about a topic or area you want to be creative in.
What is on the other side of creativity? 1. It is the implementation of specific combinations of things and testing those to use whether or not they are interesting, relevant, or delight us or other people. Testing whether there is a fundamental rule to reveal to us. 2. Things that are tested and are truly innovative ideas are found in convergent thinking. 3. Convergent thinking is taking two, three or five things and coming up with a concept that binds these words in a way that obeys the laws of physics and biology. For example, water, air, engine (plane that land on water). Convergent thinking requires more focus and persistence than divergent thinking, that why it feels harder.
Short Reflection On Its Value
This artifact expand my understanding of what creative thinking is and how creative ideas are perceived. While creativity is logical it also has an element of wonder. It is taking the knowledge, information you have gathered about how the outside world works and compiling it to create something new in a way that fascinates the mind without you knowing. For example Health systems sciences. Understanding and conceptualising large complex systems is a difficult feat. An added difficulty is communicating this large complex system to other in a way that they will become proficient in that way of thinking and eventually contribute information to it. These are all fundamental ideas that we know to be true yet Health systems sciences manages to accomplish this very thing thought as impossible. The same can be said for electric cars, people traveling to places on planes, the internet, phones. All in all, this podcast opened my mind to the connection between creative innovations and our fundamental understanding of the world and ourselves.
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