Week 4 Reading Reflection

In this chapter I think that one of the biggest ideas that surprised me was related to Table 5.3. It discusses how many people believe that only geniuses have the ability to be creative and how that is idea is incorrect. I didn’t necessarily believe only geniuses could be creative but I did believe that there is a group of people that are better at it than others. Table 5.3 shows the most common sayings that are instant idea killers. I 100% agree with these but didn’t really recognize them as idea killers until I read the text. People that claim someone’s ideas to be “dumb” or “weird” oftentimes don’t realize how much that affects a person and pursuing their ideas, creative or non-creative.

This chapter was pretty straight forward in terms of innovation and creativity and I think it was presented clearly. There was no specific part of this reading that was especially confusing or difficult to understand.

In the section that discusses the right and left hemispheres of the brain it discusses what each hemisphere is responsible for. Although it is clear that humans have both hemispheres present I have heard that people can be more dominant in one of the hemispheres as opposed to the other. Do you find this to be true as well? Do you really believe a person could be equal in both hemispheres?

When writing the steps to the creative process do you believe these are the steps to a big idea creation or small ideas everyday creative ideas as well? I ask this because it seems like it is a lengthy and more in depth process as opposed to the spur of the moment ideas they need to be quick due to time constraints. I can see how the process works but it seems like a constraint, like time, would deter this planning process.

I think that I am learning a lot from this textbook so far and there will very few times that I find something to disagree with the author on. This chapter is no different and I agree with what the author said in this chapter.