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Evangelia
Chrysikou, our Psychology of Creativity instructor, reminded us frequently of
Louis Pasteur’s declaration that ‘chance favours the prepared mind,’ and encouraged
us to hold this thought while considering the myriad ways of enhancing creative
thinking and creative ways of doing things.
Group
brainstorming, for example, is only likely to be productive after participants
have done some preparation in the form of individual study and solution-finding.
Similarly, the observation, presented
earlier, of benefit being derived from an incubation period only after an initial
period of concentration on a problem or project, illustrates the importance of
preparedness.
Other ways to
‘prepare the mind’ are:
·
Challenge yourself, by seeking activities outside your
field of expertise.
·
Take a class. Like Psychology
of Creativity.
