Narrative Creativity
Narrative Creativity
Narrative creativity is a new, neuroscience-based approach to innovation, problem solving, and resilience that has proved effective in business executives, scientists, engineers, doctors, and students as young as eight. This Element offers a concise introduction to narrative creativity's theory and practice. It distinguishes narrative creativity from ideation, divergent thinking, design thinking, brainstorming, and other current approaches to cultivating creativity. It traces the biological origins of narrative creativity and explains why narrative creativity will always be mechanically impossible for computer artificial intelligences. It provides practical exercises, developed and tested in hundreds of classrooms and businesses, and validated independently by the US Army, for improving narrative creativity. It explains how narrative creativity contributes to technological innovation, scientific progress, cultural growth, and psychological well-being, and it describes how narrative creativity can be assessed. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Product details
January 2025Hardback
9781009614788
92 pages
229 × 152 × 6 mm
0.271kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Why read this element?
- 2. Current creativity training
- 3. What current creativity training misses
- 4. Narrative's role in creativity
- 5. Narrative creativity training, the prehistory
- 6. Narrative creativity training, a new theory
- 7. Narrative creativity training, basic practices
- 8. Narrative creativity training for students
- 9. Narrative creativity training for working professionals
- 10. Narrative creativity and human intelligence
- 11. Advanced practices for the future
- Coda: Distinguishing logic from narrative
- Appendix: Assessing narrative creativity
- References.
