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Thought is an art and a process. Graham Wallas introduces the four steps to the creative thinking process and how these steps interact and are connected.
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The Creative Process
• Conscious vs. Unconscious wanders• Voluntary vs. Involuntary thinking• Deliberate vs. Serendipitous chains
of ideas
• In 1926, Graham Wallas, defined this process in four stages:
Preparation –Incubation – Illumination -Verification
Preparation
• Investigating the problem from “all directions”
• Fully conscious stage
• Brainstorm, research, planning• Relevant state of mind
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II. Incubation
• Unconscious stage
• “Combinatory play” (Einstein) – Two or more ideas combined effectively– Result in creative thinking
• “Negative Fact”– During incubation, no conscious deliberation of a
problem
• “Positive Fact”– Series of unconscious, involuntary mental events
III. Illumination
• “Sudden Illumination” (Henri Poincaré)– Flash of insight that cannot be controlled
by conscious self
• Stephen Jay Gould agreed: “trains of associations”– Connections between the seemingly
unconnected are the true secret of genius
IV. Verification
• Conscious and deliberate effort• Testing the validity of the idea• Reducing the idea to an exact form
Creative Process
• Interplay between the stages• None of the stages exist on their own
• Mechanism of creativity is a complex machine of innumerable, perpetually moving and connecting parts
• This article was inspired by Maria Popova, brainmother of Brain Pickings.
• Viva the Knowledge Revolution!
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