Overcome Any Obstacle to Creativity (eBook)

Tony McCaffrey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
196 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-3465-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents the science of creativity and innovation in a practical way and a new way of teaching called the Nonsense Method which relies on humans’ ability to create sense out of apparent nonsense and have fun while doing it. Each chapter ends with puzzles that relate to the cognitive obstacle and counter technique discussed in the chapter.

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The overall purpose of the book is to present (1) the best science on creativity and innovation in the most practical way possible and (2) a new way of teaching called the Nonsense Method, which relies on humans' incredible ability to create sense out of apparent nonsense and have fun while doing it. The central theory of the book, the Obscure Features Hypothesis for Innovation (OFH), is the first approach to innovation that yields effective counter techniques to all known cognitive obstacles to innovation. The OFH states that any creative solution is built upon at least one commonly overlooked (i.e., obscure) or new feature of the problem. Each chapter ends with puzzles that relate to the cognitive obstacle and counter technique discussed in the chapter. Two hints and a solution for each puzzle are given at the book's end. The Nonsense Method of Teaching focuses upon universal puzzles that can be adapted to any subject. These universal puzzles situate vocabulary words and ideas from any subject matter in situations that need to be connected and thus made sense of.

Autor

Dr. Tony McCaffrey has built a new approach to improving creativity that has led to an effective technique to overcome every known mental blind spot to creativity. He teaches at Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, MA, and helps lead the company, Innovation Accelerator, Inc., which uses his techniques to help companies solve problems.

Inhalt

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The Nonsense Method of TeachingChapter 2: More Nonsense in TeachingChapter 3: Functional FixednessChapter 4: Design FixationChapter 5: Brainswarming: Solving Problems TogetherChapter 6: Analogy BlindnessChapter 7: Other Blind Spots around Goals and AssumptionsChapter 8: Solving Like AnimalsChapter 9: Visual BlendingChapter 10: Unconscious CreativityChapter 11: Evolution and CreativityChapter 12: Diagnosing Creative WeaknessesChapter 13: ContradictionsChapter 14: Unlimited FeaturesChapter 15: Back to the ChildlikeAppendix A: Hints and SolutionsAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 78 Illustrations including: - 73 Black & White Illustrations; - 5 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: blind spots • Brainstorming • brainswarming • Creation • Creative • design fixation • Elementary School • functional fixedness • High School • how to be creative • Imagination • Innovation • middle school • Nonsense • nonsense method • obscure features hypothesis • Problem Solving • professional development • teaching creativity
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-3465-9 / 1475834659
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-3465-9 / 9781475834659