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Creativity A Basic Operating System for All Human Actions. Anders Lennart Swahn Staffan Svahn www.creativityinaction.eu. Creativity has become the most highly priced commodity in our economy. Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource. – Richard Florida
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CreativityA Basic Operating System for All Human Actions Anders Lennart Swahn Staffan Svahn www.creativityinaction.eu
Creativity has become the most highly priced commodity in our economy. Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource. – Richard Florida The result of Creativity is the optimal experience called FLOW, making our lives more interesting and productive. Our future is now closely tied to human creativity. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Industry and business leaders consider Creativity a top quality of graduating engineering students. Why Creativity?
Why is creativity not taught in schools? No Science-based definition ! No Science-based approach !
What is Creativity? Creativity is the ability to bring something into existence that was not there before. - Webster’s Dictionary
Creativity is the ability to bring something into existence that was not there before - from a possibility in the future. It is generated from our inner domain of Being
How we perceive the world we live in - 1 The Space+Time world-view before Newton
How we perceive the world we live in - 2 The Space+Time world-view after Newton
How we perceive the world we live in - 3 The Space/Time world-view after Einstein
The Space/Time Reality orSpace+Time Reality ? • We live in a Space/Time reality, which cannot be examined or understood with the help of our limited five senses. • The part of our world we can examine and understand is a Space + Time reality.
We can’t be creative without good support Creativity shows up in cooperation between people supporting each other.
Creative Problem Solving ”The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them.” - Albert Einstein Problems created in Knowing can be solved through Being.
Consists of two main parts: 1. Further developing the domain of Knowing Adding more, better and/or different knowledge, experience, skills and competence to the already existing ones. This component is what all education and today concentrate on. 2. Using the domain of Being. The creativity component, which consists of explaining how we can generate creative actions from the domain of Being and the Basic Operating System for all Human Actions. It is from the Creative part that all development, progress, success, Flow and Aliveness will emerge. Human Resources Development
A basic course in Creativity will provide a Breakthrough in Education and it will significantly facilitate the students’ learning of all other subjects.