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#8. Lit Review: You Creative Brain
I recently finished Shelley Carson’s book on the neural bases of creativity, and it was a pretty interesting read. Carson is a psychology professor at the Harvard Extension School and has been conducting research on creativity for many years. In Your Creative Brain, Carson’s main thesis of book is that everyone…
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#7. Lit Review: Conceptual Blockbusting
In Conceptual Blockbusting, author James L. Adams discusses various kinds of blocks that impede our ability to “conceptualize” of problems and solve them in a creative way. He believes it’s important to understand these kinds of blocks that act as impediments to our thinking because we can then begin to be more deliberate about overcoming them–that…
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#6. Lit Review Map (So Far)
One of the things that I’m also juggling in the midst of conducting interviews and now analyzing my data is making sure I’m familiarizing myself with the literature. Like in my previous post, I mentioned that I was using Mindjet’s MindManager 9 to map out what I’m learning from my reading…