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An interesting article (by Jonathan Lehrer) about creativity related to
Charlie's links was in the January 30, 2012 New Yorker Magazine.
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer
I wonder what IDEO (www.ideo.com) will say.
Barry Aprison, Ph.D.
University of Chicago

On 3/21/12 4:57 PM, "Charlie Carlson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/148777350/how-creativity-works-its-all-in-your-i
> magination
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> http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Creativity-Works-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0547386079
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> 
> 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.
> 
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