• Cognitive Enablers,  Creativity

    The Creative Process

    I’ve written generally about creativity, the individual dispositional traits and attitudes conducive to creativity, and how the environment and culture a person finds themselves in can help or hinder creativity. Today I’m writing a little bit about the creative process itself based on interviews with individuals who have been recognized for creating…

  • Creativity

    Creative Environments

    In addition to the dispositional aspects of creativity that I previously wrote about, there are environmental aspects that we have more control over. There are definitely cultural and social environments that enhance the abstract cognitive enabler of creativity and the creative process and will allow dispositional aspects to flourish. Most creative individuals…

  • Creativity

    Disposition for Creativity

    There are certain dispositional attributes that those who have exhibited higher-order creativity bring with them to the table. Miller tells us that from Picasso to Einstein, there are similar traits that can be observed in those who create have abstract cognitive enablers. One of the similarities is a great in-depth knowledge of…

  • Creativity

    What is Creativity

    I wrote earlier about creativity as being the polar opposite of conformity. Now I am going to be publishing a series of articles about creativity as an abstract cognitive enabler. Much of what I am going to be writing on here relies on the work of Carl Newman and his work in…