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http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/148777350/how-creativity-works-its-all-in-your-imagination

http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Creativity-Works-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0547386079


Live and learn, after all the years of hearing the benefits of group brainstorming and being "forced" to engage its practice, I come to find it was cooked up by an addman, Alex Osborn in 1939 without a shred of objective evidence.  It turns none of his hypothesized tenets are supported by evidence.  Au contraire: working alone, criticism, and dynamic exchange and defense are the coin of the realm.  A new book by Jonah Lehrer, explores realm of creativity.  The link to NPR and a link to Fresh Air will get you their.

An remember think like a 7 year old, and avoid the 4th grade slump; we can only be adults so long.

C

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