Some of the best ideas come not from poring over the facts but from a walk in the woods
Web edition : Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Ask most people to identify a creative person, and they?ll probably describe an artist ? Picasso, Shakespeare or even Lady Gaga.
But what about a Nobel prize?winning chemist? Or a team of engineers that figures out how to make a car engine operate more efficiently? Creativity, it turns out, is not only the domain of painters, singers and playwrights, says Robert DeHaan, a retired Emory University cell biologist who now studies how to teach creative thinking.
?Creativity is the creation of an idea or object that is both novel and useful,? he explains. ?Creativity is a new idea that has value in solving a problem, or an object that is new or useful.? And its at the heart of good science.
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