The weblog “Quantum Biocommunication” has some interesting quotes from a new book on the psychology of creativity. The book’s author, R. Keith Sawyer, seems to place video games, and Hollywood movies, and—GASP!—Microsoft’s operating system in the same category of creativity as a Van Gogh painting. That makes me skeptical and wonder exactly how he goes about operationalizing creativity. It could be argued that what comes out of Hollywood in movie form is no more creative that creating a new junk food. The Starry Night is certainly more creative than a new junk food!
Study Reveals How to Become a Highly Creative Person:
“No one is born highly creative,” says R. Keith Sawyer, Ph.D., associate professor of education and of psychology, both in Arts & Sciences. “Psychologists studying creativity have discovered that it is based on cognitive processes we all share. Creativity is not the result of some magic brain region that some people have and others don’t.”
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