CreativityA Basic Operating System for All Human
Actions
Anders Lennart SwahnStaffan Svahn
www.creativityinaction.eu
Why Creativity?
Creativity has become the most highly
priced commodity in our economy.
Human creativity is the ultimate
economic resource. – Richard Florida
The result of Creativity is the
optimal experience called FLOW,
making our lives more interesting and
productive. Our future is now closely
tied to human creativity. – Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
Industry and business leaders
consider Creativity a top quality of
graduating engineering students.
Why is creativity not taught in schools?
No Science-based definition !
No Science-based approach !
What is Creativity?
Creativity is the ability to bring something into existence that was not there before. - Webster’s Dictionary
Creativity is the ability to bring something
into existence that was not there before -
from a possibility in the future.
It is generated from our inner domain of Being
How we perceive the world we live in - 1
The Space+Time world-view before Newton
How we perceive the world we live in - 2
The Space+Time world-view after Newton
How we perceive the world we live in - 3
The Space/Time world-view after Einstein
The Space/Time Reality or
Space+Time Reality ?
• We live in a Space/Time reality, which cannot be examined or understood with the help of our limited five senses.
• The part of our world we can examine andunderstand is a Space + Time reality.
Our External and Internal Realities
ReActions
The Basic Operating System for all Human Actions
We can’t be creative without good support
Creativity shows up in cooperation between people supporting each
other.
Creative Problem Solving
”The world we have made as a result of the level of
thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we
cannot solve at the same level at which we
created them.” - Albert Einstein
Problems created in Knowing can be solved through Being.
Human Resources Development
Consists of two main parts:1. Further developing the domain of Knowing
Adding more, better and/or different knowledge, experience, skills and competence to the already existing ones. This component is what all education and today concentrate on.
2. Using the domain of Being.The creativity component, which consists of explaining how we can generate creative actions from the domain of Being and the Basic Operating System for all Human Actions. It is from the Creative part that all development, progress, success, Flow and Aliveness will emerge.
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A basic course in Creativity will provide a Breakthrough in Education and it will significantly facilitate the students’ learning of all other
subjects.