CREATIVE INSIGHT
Last month I was reading some collected chapters of Csikszentmihaly Mihaly, (very profound flow theorist and psychologist ) about creative insight and creativity and genius. I will just say a few words about understanding the process of insight... This blog will be withal my come back to the autumn and regular blog writing...
Insight is part of extended mental process. Based on previous period of conscious preparation, requires a period of incubation, where seems to be less of a factor in presented problem solving than in discovered problem finding., followed by a period of conscious evaluation and elaboration, with many feedback loops of which is a solution that may be either final or temporary, in which case the cycle may repeat itself again and again...
Since i am study somatic studies, I was more concentrated on quality, but Mihaly here is very clear, for good preparation quantity is very important. IF we look for the quantity of ideas, the quality will soon or later come out, well defined and clear, a the bad ideas will be thrown away.
At every stage, the process that comes before and after the insight is heavily dependent on social interaction. Problem finding insight must be meet through knowledge of one or more symbolic domains. A person who is not intrinsically motivated has no incentive to push beyond generally accepted boundaries of knowledge.
At every stage of the process, the stimulation and feedback of peers is necessary to select and evaluate potential insights.
INCUBATION is facilitated by moments of idling, leisure and involvement in activities such as gardening, walking, shaving legs, driving, some mindfulness activities, that require some attention but are automated enough to permit subconscious processes to work below awareness.
A person must be particularly in touch with the field at stage of evaluation and elaboration.
Psychology of creativity is the social process of creativity, absorbed and internalized by those individuals whom we call creative. At the end, i just want to add that CREATIVE GENIUS can not be recognized except as it operates within a system of cultural rules. It is very important HOW accessible the various symbolic system are and HOW responsive the social system is to the ideas.
'IT IS THE COMMUNITY AND NOT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO MAKES GENIUS MANIFEST'.
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