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CREATIVITY NOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision. by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen 1

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Creative Christmas Dinner: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=niegc7QcilM 2

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Two Views of Creativity 3

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Creative Advertising 4

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Four undocumented Mexican students from Carl Hayden Community High School used creativity to defeat major research universities to receive 1 st place in a robotics competition. Their robot had to successfully perform five different tasks. The competition was in a swimming pool at the University of California at Long Beach. The students at M.I.T. received 2 nd place in this same competition. 6

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Carrot Clarinet: http://www.youtube.com/embed/BISrGwN-yH4 7

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Creative Honda Ad: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Dxy4n0UT82o?rel=0 11

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TYPE I: ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY AH! ___________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 12

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DESCRIPTIONS Abstract Expressionism Cubism Dada Expressionism Impressionism (Puntalism) Realism Surrealism 13

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EXAMPLES Camille Saint Sans Carnival of the Animals Ferde Grofs On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite Edvard Munchs The Scream Salvador Dalis art Pablo Picassos art Gertrude Steins writing Jackson Pollocks art 14

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TYPE II: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AH HA! _______________ \________ _______________/ 15

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DESCRIPTIONS Bisociative Click Epiphany Eureka Cry Das aha erlebnis 16

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EXAMPLES 1 Discovering the Relationships Between: Tides The Moon Lodestones North Pole Amber Magnets 17

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EXAMPLES 2 And Inventing: Electricity, Electromagnetic Engines Etc. 18

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TYPE III: COMIC INSPIRATION HA HA! ____________ !*_____________ ____________i* 19

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DESCRIPTIONS Incongruous Incompatible Ironic Ludicrous Paradoxical Ridiculous Satiric 20

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EXAMPLES Anachronisms in Science Fiction Othello with the hiccups Chess player who gives his opponent a double martini Fultons Folly (Steamboat) 21

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SOME FINAL THOUGHTS CONTRAST: Convergent thinking with Divergent thinking. FINAL QUOTE: When everyone is thinking the same, then noone is thinking. Childs Play: An example of divergent thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvw469GJ4y0 22

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References: Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. New York, NY: Dell, 1946. 23