From the course: 7 Keys for Developing Effective Creative and Critical Thinking
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Creativity and brain science
From the course: 7 Keys for Developing Effective Creative and Critical Thinking
Creativity and brain science
- Your brain loves to be creative. Creativity looks different from person to person. Even within one brain, there are different routes to a creative spark. One involves what cognitive scientists call System 1 processes; quick unconscious thoughts, aha moments that burst into consciousness. The second involves System 2 processes; thinking that is slow, deliberate, and conscious. Creativity can use one or the other or a combination of the two. So you might use Type 1 thinking to generate ideas and Type 2 to critique and refine them. The science of creativity is an evolving concept. Several brain science studies have changed our understanding of the creative process in just the last 10 years alone. Each new study discovers a new factor that helps or hinders creativity in the brain. That's great for the experts that understand the intricacies of the human brain, but what about us? How should we take the latest creativity science research and actually apply it to the creative process or…
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