Creativity
Adding to the swarm of blogtalk about innovation (MountainRunner, the first post at ERM, this blog, Zenpundit once, and Zenpundit twice), Stephen DeAngelis comes to the topic of creativity. He gives...
View ArticlePlease take a survey… for science!
Title: Public Request for Participation This is a public request for participation for an academic project, “Creativity and Blogging .†This project attempts to discover what is the relationship...
View ArticleMultiple Inventions, Multiple Evolutions
My friend Jayson has emailed me a New Yorker article, “In the Air” by Malcom Gladwell. I previously saw it referenced by Peter Robinson over at The Corner, so it has now caught my eye twice. The...
View ArticleWhat is creativity?
Half Sigma ponders in some detail what it means to be creative, and he gives some factors associated with that label. While HS doesn’t go into everything, according to respectable lines of...
View ArticleDoing Artsy Stuff Isn’t “Creativity”
I’ve talked about creativity before, in the context of the OODA loop, purposeful practice (a form of metacognition that is the opposite of “flow”), and mental illness. Another part of creativity is...
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Taxonomies of Creativity
After Mark posted his thoughts, I recently completed two books on creativity, talent, and expertise: The Road to Excellence: The Acquistion of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, edited by K....
View ArticleThe OODA Loop and Creativity, Try 2
Afer heavily revising my original work tying together the OODA loop to creativity, it has become clear that the project will involve much more than a few references in another paper. So I’m removing it...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Creative Self-Efficacy
In this post, I outline existing research on the role of self efficacy in creativity and propose future research to further explain the power of creative self-efficacy. To do this, I first discuss the...
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A Simple Model of Performance
Over the past year I have worked on grounding John Boyd’s OODA loop in modern psychology. Both here, and more often in academic drafts, I have described Orientation as System 1 or intuitive cognition,...
View ArticleSelf Efficacy, and the way forward
While I’ll always be a fan of the OODA loop, a great conceptual model of human cognition, it does not help me in predicting outcomes. That’s why I generalized Horn et al to create a...
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