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Creative Thinking, Examined
Make Room for Ideas
What the research says about creative thinking and ten small habits: setting a problem aside, letting the mind wander, walking, mood, sleep, meditation, working in groups, time in nature, napping and creative confidence. Eleven research chapters that name each study and its size, plus a weekly routine, drills with answer keys and a toolkit with a glossary.
14 chapters · 36 pages · 12 studies cited
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What you get
Two Kinds of Creative Thinking
Divergent and convergent thinking, how researchers measure them, and why the split decides which habit to use.
Set It Aside: Incubation
What a pooled analysis found about taking a break, and the conditions that made the effect bigger or smaller.
Walk It Out
Four experiments and a pooled analysis of 23 studies with 1,036 participants on walking and idea generation.
Mood and Ideas
What 102 effect sizes showed about happy, calm, sad and anxious moods and creativity.
Sleep On It
A study in Nature where more than twice as many people found a hidden rule after sleep.
Meditation and the Style of Thinking
Open-monitoring and focused-attention meditation and the kinds of thinking each went with.
Let the Mind Wander
A study where an undemanding break task beat a demanding task, rest and no break, and what mind wandering had to do with it.
Ideas in Groups
A brain-imaging study of groups of four: flexibility versus copying, and what predicted group creativity.
Time in Nature
Hikers after about four days in nature without screens scored 50 percent higher on a creative task, and why the cause is unclear.
Napping and the REM Effect
A nap study: REM sleep, more than quiet rest or non-REM sleep, helped link unassociated ideas.
Believing You Can: Creative Confidence at Work
A six-month study of employees: role identity and expectations raised creative confidence, while demands lowered it.
A Practice Routine
Seven if-then plans and a light weekly routine that turn the book into habit.
Drills You Can Do Today
Alternate uses, remote associates with checked answers, quantity, selection, constraint, mind-wander and group drills. Practice material, not research.
Tools and Glossary
A toolkit, a one-page checklist and a glossary of 17 terms. Practice material, not research.
What makes this different
Every research claim names its study
Each research claim names the study and its size where the abstract gave it. A Sources section lists all 12.
Habits kept apart from evidence
Suggestions and invented examples are labelled as practice material, so you can tell what was tested from what was not.
Drills with answer keys
Alternate-uses and remote-associates drills, a log and a checklist so you can test the habits on yourself.
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