CREATIVITY

NOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking

or Double Vision.

by Don L. F. Nilsen
and Alleen Pace Nilsen
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Creative Christmas Dinner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=niegc7QcilM

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Two Views of Creativity

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Creative Advertising

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 Four undocumented Mexican students from
Carl Hayden Community High School…

…used creativity to defeat major

research universities to receive 1st place
in a robotics competition.

Their robot had to successfully perform

five different tasks.

The competition was in a swimming

pool at the University of California at
Long Beach.

The students at M.I.T. received 2nd place

in this same competition.

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Carrot Clarinet:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/BISrGwN-yH4

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Creative Honda Ad:
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Dxy4n0UT82o?rel=0

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 TYPE I: ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY

AH!

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 DESCRIPTIONS
Abstract Expressionism
Cubism
Dada
Expressionism
Impressionism (Puntalism)
Realism
Surrealism

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 EXAMPLES
Camille Saint Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals”
Ferde Grofé’s “On the Trail” from “Grand Canyon
Suite”
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”
Salvador Dali’s art
Pablo Picasso’s art
Gertrude Stein’s writing
Jackson Pollock’s art

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 TYPE II: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

AH HA!
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 DESCRIPTIONS
Bisociative Click

Epiphany

Eureka Cry

“Das aha erlebnis”

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 EXAMPLES 1
Discovering the Relationships Between:
Tides
The Moon
Lodestones
North Pole
Amber
Magnets

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 EXAMPLES 2
And Inventing:

Electricity,

Electromagnetic Engines

Etc.

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 TYPE III: COMIC INSPIRATION

HA HA!
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 DESCRIPTIONS
Incongruous
Incompatible
Ironic
Ludicrous
Paradoxical
Ridiculous
Satiric

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 EXAMPLES
Anachronisms in Science Fiction

Othello with the hiccups

Chess player who gives his opponent a double martini

Fulton’s Folly (Steamboat)

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 SOME FINAL THOUGHTS
CONTRAST: Convergent thinking with Divergent thinking.

FINAL QUOTE: “When everyone is thinking the same, then noone is thinking.”

Child’s Play: An example of divergent thinking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvw469GJ4y0

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References:

Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. New York, NY: Dell, 1946.

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