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How To Get Creative Ideas

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Today while I was searching for articulated thinking on resourcefulness, I came across an exceptional video on HOW TO GET CREATIVE IDEAS. It excited me to hear a talk by Professor  Murray Gell-Mann.  Here is how an extract describes him: He is one of the largest living legends in physics. He's also been described as The Man With Five Brains, and it's no puzzle why: He was admitted to Yale at 15, got his PhD from MIT at 21, and is an international advisor on the environment. He speaks 13 languages fluently (at last count), and has expertise in such far-ranging fields as natural history, historical linguistics, archaeology, bird-watching, depth psychology, and the theory of complex adaptive systems. Creative thinking is the source of all created works. While not understanding the specifics of many of his references, I appreciate his sharing the varied stages of how ideas come to mind and how they evolve and get organised into a form that is accepted by the maker as "This ...