Insight or Ideas: Escaping the Idea Centered "Box" Defining Creativity
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Because creative success often results from recognizing that the original problem definition is hiding effective solutions, it may be advantageous to explore a definition of the creative event not as “an idea that is newer and better” but as “a shift in perspective or belief that makes new possibilities obvious”. In the classic phrase “Don't raise the bridge, lower the water” the creative event is seen as the shift of problem definition to "getting the boats past", thus making a great many new possi-
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