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Creativity Survey of Israeli Scientists
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Resp 00000001: Resp 00000002: Although a once-conducive environment does not necessarily stay so always
Resp 00000003: Resp 00000005: I am mostly creative when it is complete darkness and I am very tired
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Resp 00000011: Resp 00000012: Interaction with people working in related areas is essential for the generation of new ideas. Resp 00000013: I mean universities and other academic communities, really encouraging the creativity of their member.. Resp 00000015: No comment
Resp 00000017: Resp 00000018: Environments were you are constantly required to come with something new can force the mind to do just that. Stimulation is very important Resp 00000019: "brainstorming atmosphere" in which people are accepting unfocused and associative discussions. Resp 00000020: First, a place or situation conducive toi serenity Second, freedom from immediate family, health or money problems.
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Resp 00000023: Resp 00000024: I do not have any basis for this thinking. Resp 00000026: There are certain situations, ambiances and environments that allow one to think in an open and expansive manner.
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Resp 00000036: Resp 00000038: environment has a very strong effect on creativity - but not an absolute one. Environment - - meaning mostly the human surrounding ' and also the physical setting.
Resp 00000039: Resp 00000040: Obviously, when one is in signifinant financial hardship (has to focus on making a living) such an "environment" is NOT conductive to creativity. Likewise, an intellectually stimulating environment, like a University or Research Institute is conducti
Resp 00000041: Resp 00000042: When one is an encouraging and appreciative atmosphere one is more creative
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Resp 00000044: Resp 00000046: One needs time - lots of time - and surroundings that support, rather than inhibit the utilization of that time. This includes bodily comforts (furniture, air-conditioning, quiet, privacy), the opportunity to interact with colleagues in a suitable setting
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Resp 00000051: Resp 00000052: I mean silence, nature, and quite music
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Resp 00000060: Resp 00000061: Academic environment or industrial development environment Resp 00000063: My research is motivated By curiosity. In turn when I am in certain kinds of environments my curiosity undergoes hybrination and so does my creativity
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Resp 00000066: Resp 00000067: University atmosphere ,democratic countries , mountain and see lanscpe
Resp 00000068: Resp 00000069: With the right constellation(s) there are better chances for creativity Resp 00000070: continuous flow of people (new blood). This you can find only in university setting where the students come and go and provide a fertilization process. When people are left to themseleves they naturally stagnate. A truly academic environment endorses flow Resp 00000073: Sometimes the environment & atmosphere may be conducive to creativity, but creativity may also emerge in the most unexpected, not necessarily pleasant situations/conditions/environment Resp 00000074: Contacts with creative people may stimulate person's creativity, but, of course, the person must possess some intrinsic creative ability
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Resp 00000083: Resp 00000084: I have chosen my area of research as a result of the environment I grew. Resp 00000085: Creativity can be enhanced by gathering the right people at the right place with a relaxing atmosphere
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Resp 00000087: Resp 00000088: I believe that 'creativity' per se is an inherent virtue, but it needs a nourishing environment to be something of new reality including new ideas. Resp 00000089: Innovation needs tools particularly in the exact sciences where instrumentation technicians and students as well as laboratories and good people are required.
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Resp 00000095: Resp 00000096: I am working in the area of computer algebra experimentation which provides fantastic opportunities for expression of creativity
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Resp 00000113: Resp 00000114: Environments with: exposure to information and ideas from different fields, freedom to express and experiment with ideas, interaction with people from different backgrounds
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Resp 00000119: Resp 00000120: No pressure background, pleasent atmosphere, INTERESTING colleagues and bright students
Resp 00000121: Resp 00000122: Creativity requires a certain kind of environmental support Resp 00000124: As a brain researcher I understand that creativity is the formation of new connections which can be facilitated when other inputs to the brain are optimal
Resp 00000129: Resp 00000130: Optimal working conditions foster the peace of mind conducive to creative thinking. Effective interactions with cooperative colleagues also lead to creative ideas Resp 00000133: Can you explain a belief? I know and can feel that the right environment feed me and really conduct to creativity. On the other hand, certainly there are environments that kill creativity
Resp 00000136: Resp 00000137: Certain environments, where the atmosphere is appropriate for brainstorming with other people, can facilitate synergism and creativity Resp 00000138: Environments that are less disturbing, free of imposing people, more quiet and allow time to look inwardly Resp 00000140: necessary conditions are interactions / discussions with other people, teaching, etc
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Resp 00000148: Resp 00000149: Unfortunately, the most oppressive regimes appeared to produce extremely creative AND scientifically oriented people. I am not sure that you have had in mind THESE kinds of environments Resp 00000151: interaction with other people in the same or similar discipline
Resp 00000152: Resp 00000153: If my colleges are creative my creativity was increased very much
Resp 00000154: Resp 00000155: An environment that on the one hand has a variaty of subfields, without loosing the depty of each particular field, and put the emphasisis on original research and not on mass papers production, is likely to encourage creativity
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Resp 00000158: Resp 00000159: The history of science indicates that scientific (actually any cultural creativity) is to be found in environments that are at least minimally open to new ideas and make possible their expression. You do not expect an Einstein in a village in Mongolia or
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Resp 00000161: Resp 00000163: I beleive that the ability for creativity is genetically determinated, but there must be some favourable factors for its developing in childhood: - Family - intellectual atmosphere; - solitude from other people from time to time, even for several hours
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Resp 00000166: Resp 00000167: Beethoven had what is probably the worst kind of environment one might imagine, and yet… Resp 00000168: In my experience, people do not learn to express their creativity if the environment is not supportive. In particular, I am thinking of my 21 year old daughter who is only recently discovering her creativity, since she has been enrolled at a technical co
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Resp 00000171: Resp 00000175: By environment I mean working conditions, colleagues, general atmosphere and location. Having a crummy or ill-equipped lab, unsupportive head of department or being in a depressing location will greatly reduce creativity of any scientist
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Resp 00000182: Resp 00000183: The work environment is very important for creativity. Noisy, uncomfortable, polluted work space does not encourage creativity Resp 00000185: Creativity needs energy (good working conditions) and interractions with other workers Resp 00000186: Poverty is a situation which prevents any creativity, except for the basic one, which leads to survival
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Resp 00000190: Resp 00000194: an exciting productive professional enviroment is very important if not critical to the initiation of a creative process, either directly by discussions or indirectly by diffusion, pride and competative drive to do well Resp 00000195: Free time, sufficient salary, Meeting with colleagues, good research students Resp 00000196: One needs either peace of mind , or extreme pressure
Resp 00000197: Resp 00000199: If your workplace allows enough freedom, you are more likely to be creative
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Resp 00000204: Resp 00000205: If you are around creative people, you start to act as they do. I have seen this over and over again--environment is the key in creativity Resp 00000206: peace of mind combined with major chalanges and and clear cur objectives. IN addition good excess to information and ability to ask the right questions
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Resp 00000212: Resp 00000214: 1.Sometimes we can't realize our best ideas without financial support. 2. Doesn't bother me and I whole shall reach
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Resp 00000217: Resp 00000218: Both my post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University (1986-1990) and my Sabbatical at Albert School of Medicine New York (1997-1998) where the scientific community and infrastructure were superb, my scientific creativity and productivity likewise reach Resp 00000219: Environments which enrich creativity by encouraging discussions , promoting good and healthy competition and motivate to excellence are conductive to creativity
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Resp 00000224: Resp 00000225: There is a relation between the environment I am and the ideas I produce
Resp 00000226: Resp 00000228: I believe that exchange of views (in that sense an environment) is contributing to creativity, but most of all one should be motivated by his own questions and the drive to solve these Resp 00000230: I have not given much thought to this type of questions, but I would generally think it is correct
Resp 00000232: Resp 00000233: an environment complety free is stress does not stimulate creativity. an environment overloaded by stress curtails creativity Resp 00000234: The environment has an important effect on the accumulation of "data" for our mind. Creativity is made of combination of different subjects. One of them is the elements that one have as tools for the creation. In this point the environment plays an important Resp 00000235: If the environments permit and conditions are suitable creativity will be much more expressed
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Resp 00000001: Resp 00000002: I think that was when I was first taught to read. Although I didn't create anything that hadn't been known before, I felt that I discovered something new
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Resp 00000011: Resp 00000012: I wanted to be a dancer Resp 00000013: I've started to write the science fiction novel. Resp 00000018: I didn't like kindergarden where I was told what to do. I run away and my mother had to leave me alone since she had to work. I taught myself how to read and enjoyed it a lot. Resp 00000020: I realized that the notion of an object looking big or small to us regardless of its true size has to do with the angle it subtends
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Resp 00000036: Resp 00000040: Just after starting my undergraduate studies (before the army - I was in "atuda") I was highly motivated by mathematics and was excited by ideas, however small, I had
Resp 00000041: Resp 00000046: I'm not even sure what a "creative experience" is. Is it building a sand castle on the beach? What is the difference between creating and discovering?
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Resp 00000068: Resp 00000070: I built an electronic recording device Resp 00000074: That time I tried and eventually discovered that I could (relatively) easy do much beyond the usual tasks in the school
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Resp 00000083: Resp 00000084: It was after the release from army service when I realized that I can do things according to my imaginations that no one else did before
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Resp 00000087: Resp 00000088: thus is the first memory I have having invented a game in the kindrgarden which has been encouraged by the nurse Resp 00000089: a real complete innovation was when I was able to make a reductive materials stable in water Resp 00000091: I thought of an experiment that I found later to have won the Nobel prize (the discovery of viral reverse transcriptase 1975)
Resp 00000094: Resp 00000096: I created my own virtual world in which some tale heroes were developing
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Resp 00000112: Resp 00000114: This is limited by memory, could be earlier experienced that are not remembered clearly
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Resp 00000121: Resp 00000122: I think the first experience with creativity is related to the childhood Resp 00000123: It was my first independent research… Resp 00000130: I expressed verbal/literary creativity at a young age. It's been downhill since then Resp 00000137: during an argument with the biology teacher who gave us an explanation that didn't make sense
Resp 00000139: Resp 00000140: my parents say it was from birth. I myself recall some events at age 5
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Resp 00000152: Resp 00000153: I create stories for my young sister
Resp 00000157: Resp 00000159: Working on my M.Sc. Thesis I found that playing with new ideas is a game I enjoy
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Resp 00000166: Resp 00000167: Solved a problem of a lost pressure-relief key for our bathroom towel rail, by dismantling a pen the cross-section of which I observed would fit the key socket Resp 00000168: I used to write poems, sew, knit, draw, dance, sing and play piano and guitar as a child. When in high school, my major interest was horse-back riding. It was the communication with the horse that particularly drew me to it. My main interest in riding
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Resp 00000180: Resp 00000185: Science project at school Resp 00000186: I designed a computer operated spectrofluorometer Resp 00000189: I was trying to derive a formula for solving a quadratic equation
Resp 00000190: Resp 00000194: Hard to say ! given a challenge in a Master thesis or a Doctorate is a strong trigger for creative solutions, but i think that the my own meaningful creative work came later as a challenge to do very meaningfull scientific work Resp 00000196: designed a climbing toy ( i am told)…
Resp 00000198: Resp 00000205: High school algebra--I seemed to catch on before others--of course my methods turned out be well known, but they were new to me Resp 00000206: while studying Biology in highschool
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Resp 00000212: Resp 00000213: I created my carnaval dress Resp 00000214: I have got proof to my suggestions about the role of mast cells in the immune response. (My Phd)
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Resp 00000217: Resp 00000219: at the start of my medical school experience
Resp 00000220: Resp 00000221: I am not sure that the question is good
Resp 00000224: Resp 00000225: That's a question for my parents Resp 00000227: It was some idea to improve efficiency of microturine Resp 00000228: In 1955, studying Medicine, I was offered a year fellowship for research with the late Prof. B. Shapira, together with Prof. E. Shafrir, to study fat mobilization from the adipose tissue.They assumed that plasma lipoprotein fractions will meiate neutral f Resp 00000230: I was able to show that the light coming from a focus of an ellipse after reflection will gather in another focus. I knew this to be true, but I was proud that I could prove it myself. Resp 00000233: Sand castles and channels at the beach edge Resp 00000235: During my service in the army as a young officer
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Resp 00000001: Resp 00000002: It seems to me that meditation, in its very general sense, correlates with creativity. It is not at all clear to me that rote religious practice or even spiritual meditation necessarily leads to tangible creativity
Resp 00000003: Resp 00000005: I personally do not feel it, but I believe there are other people who experience a strong influence. I think that the answer is not universal, but rather individual-dependent
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Resp 00000011: Resp 00000012: Religion has nothing to do with anything in my experience Resp 00000018: Absolute belief cannot live in peace with independent creativity in most subject. In many cases creativity is associated with doubt Resp 00000020: I am a religious man; I have found no correlation to speak off between times I am more serious or active religiously and times I have obtained great results
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Resp 00000023: Resp 00000024: I do not have any religious practice and i do not think that i am a last one in creativity Resp 00000026: I see no connection
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Resp 00000036: Resp 00000037: Looks to me like a politically motivated or romantic idea that has nothing to do with the essence of creativity Resp 00000038: spiritual experience could change your state of mind and expose you to thinkung in different ways
Resp 00000039: Resp 00000040: Religion has nothing to do with Science (my field). I believe it is even contradictory to scientific creativity
Resp 00000041: Resp 00000046: Frankly, I don't identify with the whole lien of questioning here. Creativity is subjective. I am not sure if I am creative at all, even if I am doing decent science. I don't see it as connected with religion. I have known good scientists who were devout
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Resp 00000048: Resp 00000052: I think such correlation exist, but with a number of reservations
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Resp 00000066: Resp 00000067: These practices tend to make people more concentrated ;this favors creativity Resp 00000069: When you feel that you have a creative experience it is usually accompanied by a felling of flow and uplift (well described by Csikszentmihalyi) Resp 00000070: religious practice mostly originates from external influence (like gorwing into such an environment). Creativity is generated by an internal drive - it can be cultivated by external influence but mostly comes from within Resp 00000073: It may be so for some people, but it does not seem to me to represent my experience. Hard work, excitment about a problem, and unexpected thoughts seem to be more relevant Resp 00000074: I known very creative and talented people both religious (sometimes, strongly) and non-religious at all. I mean that a creative person can use (or be inspired) by religious practice in the same way as by other cultural ideas or activities
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Resp 00000087: Resp 00000089: Innovation in science is not related to other personal obligations and it can survive independent of religion or spirituality Resp 00000091: no correlation in my opinion
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Resp 00000094: Resp 00000096: Some outstanding mathematicians who are religious were pursuing wrong in my eyes targets, induced from their religious views. This is the main concern which does not allow me to give larger rate
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Resp 00000109: Resp 00000110: The history does not always prove a tight correlation
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Resp 00000113: Resp 00000114: I define creativity in the context of ideas that are well defined and meaningful in the real world. "Spiritual" and religious people create in an invented world but treat it as real, a practise which I reject
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Resp 00000127: Resp 00000130: In my experience religious practice and creativity have been orthogonal Resp 00000133: I believe that spiritually poor person cannot be creative. Creativity implies a broader thinking than the particular object of creativity, including the spiritual questions. Creativity requires certain spiritual work and is actually a special state of spi
Resp 00000135: Resp 00000137: These practices may sometime inhibit creativity Resp 00000138: I see no reason for this correlation
Resp 00000139: Resp 00000140: I think this statement is nonsense. literally. I have more than 220 scientific papers in many journals, including numerous papers in Nature and Science magazines, and several patents. None of these was inspired by any God. I think this question is insult
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Resp 00000152: Resp 00000153: I never fill influence of such practice
Resp 00000154: Resp 00000155: In my mind there is utterly no connection between spiritual or religous practice and creativity
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Resp 00000158: Resp 00000159: Religion has usually been a negative force in scientific creativity
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Resp 00000161: Resp 00000163: I am not religious. I don't clearly understand what do you mean by "spiritual" in the context "spiritual OR religious" - there are two absolutely different things!
Resp 00000165: Resp 00000167: As a scientist I have no "beliefs". The scientific method doesn't work that way. However, I know several highly creative people who have no spiritual or religious beliefs or practices. Therefore I observe no positive correlation of the type you posit Resp 00000168: I think that creativity does not occur in the context of material gain. It comes of its own accord, and therefore, may be the same place as spirituality, but I don't think that people who are very creative are aware of spirituality having anything to do w
Resp 00000172: Resp 00000175: spiritual or religious practices are narrowing your mind and hinder any scientific creativity
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Resp 00000182: Resp 00000183: Don't believe that spiritual or religious practice influences the creativity of scientists Resp 00000185: Religious faith is the opposite of creativity. It is the blind acceptance of doctrine that is untested and untestable for the most part Resp 00000186: Unconditional belief and any form of progress are opposed. Human creativity, which religion supposes that it belongs to god only is the best example of this opposition
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Resp 00000193: Resp 00000194: spiritual or religious practice has a strong positive correlation with life stile which may or may not induce creativity , but by itself it does not stimulate or even encourge the desire to excell and contribute to science Resp 00000196: Spiritual & religious practice requires BELIEF, which is antonymous with creativity
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Resp 00000198: Resp 00000199: Absolutely no correlation between creativity and religion. On the contrary, the latter may very well restrict and reduce creativity
Resp 00000200: Resp 00000205: This is true; when Einstein was asked if he was a spiritual man he said that he was, but that he did not believe in a personal G-d. Just look at the world around us--it didn't happen by chance Resp 00000206: I believe in the opposite tha treligious beliefs may damage creativity especaill in Sciences and life sciences
Resp 00000210: Resp 00000211: On the other way around disciplines kill creativity.
Resp 00000212: Resp 00000213: I just think that doing math. and being strongly religious have a lot in common Resp 00000214: I against religious fanaticism but without faith can not be a creative activity
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Resp 00000217: Resp 00000219: I do not think it is necessarily true that religious practice positively affects creativity
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Resp 00000226: Resp 00000228: my feeling when experiencing a discovery has a spiritual sense but it seems to me to be like the poetry of Nature, rather than religion Resp 00000230: In my youth I have been very much scientifically oriented and have thought that religion contradicts this orientation. During my life (I am now 62) I gradually came to the opinion that a thinking person can not not believe in God. I am still
Resp 00000232: Resp 00000233: While spirituality provides and mental environment for creativity (reducing confusion?), it does not partake in the creative process per se Resp 00000234: I believe that spiritual (or religious) practice enriches the soul. I think that a rich soul has impact in the quality of a creative idea, vision or any other way of expression of the creativity Resp 00000235: It is a matter of pesonality and character of the individual rather than external influences
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Resp 00000001: Resp 00000002: I often take a walk or just leave whatever I'm doing in order to make creative advances in my work. Taking a break sometimes helps, but sometimes I prefer to focus as intensely as possible. But I can't say that I really have a special method or technique
Resp 00000003: Resp 00000005: Freeing my brain from strong logical control - making myself tired and not letting myself get asleep. Sometimes drinking a couple of glasses of wine Resp 00000012: Thinking about an idea and trying to work it out leads to the emergence of new ideas Resp 00000020: I am pretty unable to bring on creativity save for making efforts to be serene and forget about problems that bother me as mentioned earlier
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Resp 00000035: Resp 00000036: אני מסוגל "להריץ" הרבה מאוד סימולציות עיני רוחי Resp 00000037: atmosphere is important Resp 00000038: I am running a proram of "Development of Creative thinking for solving operational problems. We partly succeed to induce creativity
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Resp 00000048: Resp 00000052: "Scrutinising and thorough thinking over" method Resp 00000053: It just comes or does not
Resp 00000054: Resp 00000056: I enter a state of mixed thinking and imagining
Resp 00000057: Resp 00000059: Take a walk, ride my bicycle
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Resp 00000068: Resp 00000069: It is something which is not happening on demand, it occurs and then it is very nice, the right constallation of a lot of parameters, some of which I am not aware or can pinpoint have to be at the same time Resp 00000070: I become creative after a period of deep study of a particular problem. It is as if the problem needs to settle down and then it emerges back with a creative solution. It is not a technique just an observation Resp 00000073: I do not know when creative moments will come, I have no control of this process Resp 00000074: I mean that the creativity is induced/stimulated by a strong emotional motivation
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Resp 00000087: Resp 00000088: I have no 'special' method /technique- the creative idea evolves as a need to solve problem Resp 00000089: No need for special methods, it involves learning an issue in detail and think about innovative solution. This is common. Resp 00000090: special mood
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Resp 00000095: Resp 00000096: My experience with sucessful insights versus wrong ways to catch a succesful way
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Resp 00000121: Resp 00000124: True creativity is state-dependent and therefore cannot be induced at will Resp 00000130: It just happens Resp 00000133: Complete immersion of my brains into the problem with a maximal influx of information. You either come to a new idea or just get a headache. Resp 00000137: The right atmosphere and environment can help, but only to a limited extent Resp 00000138: Most of the time it is not a systematic process, it just happens
Resp 00000139: Resp 00000140: it comes from within, anytime, and is largely unexpected. sometimes it comes during conversations, sometimes at night, or in the shower. concentration helps, but I cannot "force" myself to get into this. It comes naturally
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Resp 00000148: Resp 00000149: I cannot change an environment on a large scale but I can choose my local environment to enhance a chance to be more creative
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Resp 00000154: Resp 00000155: Flashes of creativity do not arise as a result of either “hard thinking” or “deep concentration”, but rather if I “am troubled by a problem” and “carry it with me all the time.”
Resp 00000158: Resp 00000159: I try to connect facts from various fields and try to see whether I can put them together and get something truly new. The "various fields" may be from medicine, biochemistry, synthetic chemistry and even history
Resp 00000161: Resp 00000163: "sinking" deep into work! If it is writing - sometimes several hours is needed. It doesn't work every time, but usually helps
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Resp 00000165: Resp 00000167: If I knew how to induce creativity I would be much more creative Resp 00000168: I'm not even sure what creativity means in the context of what I do today, so I guess I have no methods or techniques to induce it, if I am not even aware of utilizing creativity at all. If the idea is those sudden flashes of understanding, then I have n Resp 00000175: Just a nice environment to work in (office, lab, location, etc)
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Resp 00000182: Resp 00000183: No special method. Ideas come at odd times and places.. Resp 00000185: Attempting to see an unusual or parallel solution to a problem Resp 00000189: working on a problem tends to produce, eventually, a creative flash Resp 00000194: creativity is a hidden talent that need be stimulated to evolve.A great number of Noble scale inventions were due to scientific curiosity provoked by an accidental phenomena in the field of expertise, or by an intriguing challenge by a superior or an test Resp 00000195: tai chi, meditation, observing nature Resp 00000196: I dont think I have a SPECIAL method, but have built a model for myself
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Resp 00000198: Resp 00000199: Creativity is a sudden flash. Nothing I know of induces creativity
Resp 00000200: Resp 00000203: Perseverance is not a method
Resp 00000204: Resp 00000205: I do not not have a method--but I try to think before reacting. I.e. , I try to see the consequences of doing X or Y before actually doing X or Y. This "gestalting" often put me into a higher mental state than just pursuing the first path I think of Resp 00000206: I am using concept maps in which I asked the question and try to give the answer and work plan to get tho the answers in a hirachical way
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Resp 00000212: Resp 00000213: I do not have any special methods or technique. I do not think I do anything at all for inducing creativity in myself Resp 00000214: I have no a special method for inducing creativity in myself." First of all the problem must seize me completely
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Resp 00000224: Resp 00000228: I am always induced by a question. But I do not have a systematic method or technique Resp 00000233: it is to move from totally concentrating on a task (topic) to totally removing oneself from it and back and forth Resp 00000235: I feel it once I discuss it with collaborators
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Resp 00000001: Resp 00000002: The mere joy of creativity is one such incentive, but the possibility of economic or other tangible benefits would certainly make it more attractive to accept such risks. This isn't different from what we do every day. Psychological and health risks are a
Resp 00000003: Resp 00000005: Economic - not much influence, I did not understand what is meant by other incentives
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Resp 00000011: Resp 00000012: I don't want to work for money, but to be paid for what I do Resp 00000018: You have not specified the risks so I cannot say much on the subject Resp 00000020: obvious no?
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Resp 00000036: Resp 00000037: I do science out of inner motivation Resp 00000038: It is not worth to be exposed to psychological risks. Economical effects are of marginal concern
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Resp 00000041: Resp 00000046: I don't see how one can commercialize creativity. If you give an uncreative person all the right conditions in the world they won't create anything
Resp 00000047: Resp 00000052: The risk should be meaningful irrespective of economic and other incentives
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Resp 00000068: Resp 00000069: It is not for the money, I enjoy the creative process, it is for the feeling of it and hopefully for the results it can give to mankind to improve our situation on Earth Resp 00000070: I am not willing to take psychological risks - I am happy with my level of creativity as it is Resp 00000073: I enjoy the creative moments when they come, and wish no more than this. Resp 00000074: The circumstances may force one to take some risks, but even in my practice few time I felt that during intensive creative work I approachec borders to craziness, which would be an absolute crash
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Resp 00000087: Resp 00000089: Money or personal advantages should not be part of scientific motivation. Motivation & innovation should be a stand alone process
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Resp 00000094: Resp 00000096: I do not believe that creativity may be efficiently moderated by some efforts of economic essence
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Resp 00000107: Resp 00000110: It is important to be relaxed in order to allow deep long term research
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Resp 00000118: Resp 00000120: dont want and dont have to take those risks
Resp 00000121: Resp 00000130: Creativity is essential to my life mission and accordingly all the incentive I need already exists.
Resp 00000136: Resp 00000137: Very ulikely that economic incentives will convince me to take such risks Resp 00000138: Not interested in economics
Resp 00000139: Resp 00000140: I think that whole idea of inducing creativity is nothing but nonsense. and I do NOT think there's any risk involved, because taking drugs etc, does NOT induce creativity. Rather, it's only being used (abused) by fools to make a show and convince other fo
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Resp 00000150: Resp 00000153: economic is important but health also Resp 00000155: I do not like methodologies involving a high state of either psychological or physiological risks, and economic benefits would not change my objection. Resp 00000159: I am against using artificial methods (chemical, psychological etc) to enhance creativity. Hence I see no reason to accept any risks
Resp 00000161: Resp 00000163: If I am able to be creative by myself, without risking, I don't need to accept any significant risks for my health!
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Resp 00000165: Resp 00000167: I am happy to accept whatever gifts nature has granted me. If they could be safely enhanced, I would enhance them. But if there were a risk of lasting damage (e.g. by the use of drugs, etc.) I would not be prepared to take such a risk Resp 00000168: Economic incentives have no effects on me whatsoever. I am not motivated by money Resp 00000175: I do not want the help of any drugs etc. I can manage fine without
Resp 00000178: Resp 00000185: No incentive is worth taking risks with your health Resp 00000186: I am not ready to be involved in proactive creativity without a minimal proof that it works Resp 00000194: creativity in science needs mental stimulation but creativity in practical technical matters, can be achieved by an economic challenge or a particularly interesting problem...financial support is needed/desired for peace of mind and better concentration Resp 00000196: it doesnt work for me
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Resp 00000198: Resp 00000199: I would not take any health hazards to increase creativity. Money won't matter.
Resp 00000200: Resp 00000203: Creativity is fun. Incentives are irrelevant Resp 00000205: I would not take drugs no matter what I might accomplish; I have seen the damage they can do. Also, I would not play with fire--to put myself into a trance etc to increase my powers--I have see the damage they can do too. Resp 00000206: I would like to better understand the risks first and only than to give an answer Resp 00000211: I do not believe in special creativity phases
Resp 00000212: Resp 00000214: I don't know Resp 00000219: Economic incentives serve as enhancers of the creative process
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Resp 00000224: Resp 00000228: I don't understand what other incentives are Resp 00000230: I value the creativity in itself, economic and other incentives are not too important to me Resp 00000233: Being happy and healthy are difficult to sustain states. It is not worth risking them for any other state of mind. Resp 00000235: In my age with family responsibility it should affect, in young age it is different |