Innovating minds : rethinking creativity to inspire change / Wilma Koutstaal and Jonathan T. Binks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koutstaal, Wilma, author.

Binks, Jonathan T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Creative thinking.

Divergent thinking.

Adaptability (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A groundbreaking, scientific approach to creative thinking From entrepreneurs to teachers, engineers to artists, almost everyone stands to benefit from becoming more creative. New ways of thinking, making, and imagining have the potential to bring about revolutionary changes to both our personal lives and society as a whole. And yet, the science behind creativity has largely remained a mystery, with few people aware of the ways we can optimize our own creative and innovative ideas. Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity To Inspire Change offers a perspective, grounded in science, that allows

Contents:

Cover

Innovating Minds

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

About This Book

1. What Are Ideas, and Where Do They Come From?

2. Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Varying Our Levels of Abstraction

3. Staying the Course and Letting Go: Varying Our Degrees of Mental Control

4. Making, Finding, and Improvising

5. Past to Future, Future to Future: Innovating Together Over Time

6. Ever-Renewing Goals and Keeping Our Aims in View

A Concepts Guide

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 6, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-931604-X

0-19-931603-1

OCLC:

916951575