The Einstein Factor pg 276 Gamesmanship- look at your task as a game and establish objectives, challenges to overcome, rules, and rewards. Powerful goal- remind yourself frequently of the overriding spiritual, social, or intellectual purpose that drives your work. Focus Surrender to the process (of work)- Let go and don’t strive or strain to achieve your objective. Ecstasy. Peak productivity- Your ecstatic state makes your resourcefulness, creativity, and energy reach very high levels. Your productivity and quality of work shoot through the roof ..read more

Which car model's name... 1. ... describes DeSoto, LaSalle, and Cadillac? Explorer (Ford) 2. ... contains all five vowels? Sequoia (Toyota) 3. ... contains a word meaning a "group of three"? Patriot (Jeep) 4. ... spells another word reading backward? Regal (Buick) 5. ... contains four letters that are also Roman numerals? Maxima (Nissan) The Roman numerals are I, X, and M. 6. ... becomes a word meaning "rebellion" when you add the letters RE to the front? Volt (Chevrolet) 7. ... begins with a state abbreviation and ends with a different state abbreviation? Corolla (Toyota) 8. ... is a homophon ..read more

- Involves the elements typically associated with creativity: spontaneity, experimentation, flexibility, and openness - Also involves deepening mastery, which has the following associated elements: organization, planning, focus, and repetition - Can't develop one at the expense of the other - Tied together with abductive logic, which seeks the best explanation or aims to create the best model in response to novel or interesting data that doesn't fit a current model - Similar to the trial and error associated with generative reasoning that requires persistence, originality, openness, organizati ..read more

Exploring Creativity The Science of Human Innovation pg 65 - Generative processes produce ideas. - Include information retrieval, association, and combination. - Examples are word association puzzles where one has to find out what word can go before or at the end of other words to form new words, finding the odd word out, and analogies - Filtering processes that select among the ideas. - The mind evaluates these ideas' novelty, surprisingness, and aesthetic appeal to decide which ones should be retained and explored. - Exploratory processes that modify and elaborate the idea. - Consider its im ..read more

Match the following lists by an adjective in the second list with an associated noun in the first list. First list Page Lips Track Wedding Word Law Seas Second list A. Spoken B. Sealed C. Infinite D. Printed E. Track F. High Answers: D (Printed page) B (Sealed lips ..read more

Each 2-word phrase on the left side is a "disguised" and shortened form of a familiar saying. Here they are. Rocky romance- The course of true love never did run smooth. Terrestrial mollusk- The world is my oyster. Chartreuse envy- Jealousy is the green-eyed monster. Capricious fame- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Attitudinal bias- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Craven scruples- Conscience does make cowards of us all. Gluttonous guest- He hath eaten me out of house and home. Invisible irrelevance- 'Tis nei ..read more

Each word in the following pairs has something in common. For example, if "trees" and "ice- cream stores" are given, their "something in common" would be cones. Now, try the following. Comets and dogs Surgeons and Halloween revelers CD players and spinal columns Astronauts and pharmacies Vests and billiards tables Diners and election sites Cars and elephants Answers: 1. Tails 2. Masks 3. Discs 4. Capsules 5. Pockets 6. Booths 7. Trunks ..read more

Find two hidden words in the following pairs of words that are related to one another in some way. Example: humble, missing (hum, sing) asking, spawn slight, sundae broadly, pathetic broiler, gasket drinking, appendix snapping, grabbed radish, template Answers: king, pawn light, sun road, path oil, gas ink, pen nap, bed dish, plate ..read more

Explaining Creativity The Science of Human Innovation pg 296 It is collaborative, improvised, and unrevised before execution. It emerges unpredictably from a group of people. It depends on shared cultural knowledge. Associated with critical thinking and reasoning Involves finding problems that typically escape most people's minds and solving them Also involves applying ideas and solutions across different domains of knowledge Pg 74 Creativity is not the result of a magical insight but occurs due to a collection of small mini-insights that are organized and combined in the creator’s mind ..read more

Find vehicles that are hidden among two words in the following sentences. The bird trainer tricks hawks into flying only on command (Rickshaw) High up in the air, the contrail erupted from the cloud like a bolt from the sky (Trailer) The day after the disco, aching limbs demonstrated his age more forcefully than the lines on his face. (Coach ..read more