R. Keith Sawyer
Auteur van Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
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Keith Sawyer is the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author of fourteen books, including the most widely used college textbook on creativity research, and over eighty scientific articles, Sawyer lives in North Carolina.
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Sawyer, Robert Keith
- Geboortedatum
- 1960-04-28
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Opleiding
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, Computer Science, 1982)
University of Chicago (MA, 1992, PhD, 1994, psychology) - Beroepen
- jazz pianist
university professor
video game designer
management consultant
psychologist
creativity researcher - Relaties
- Csikszentmihaly, Mihaly (doctoral advisor)
- Organisaties
- University of California, Santa Cruz
Washington University, St. Louis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Atari
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- 14
- Leden
- 569
- Populariteit
- #43,981
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 74
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- 2
I know I’m lying to myself. But I let myself keep falling into this trap of false belief because, even if none of the books contain the single great solution, most contain some good ideas.
Keeping the preceding in mind, you may understand why I was first disappointed by this book, then eventually glad to have purchased it.
The disappointment comes from blurbs and reviews that made me believe in the impossible, again. “Here,” I thought, “Might be the culmination of all the answers I’ve been looking for.” (And I know answers can’t culminate, but I think that tells you something about my mindset when I dove in.)
The book promises “The surprising path to greater creativity” (the subheading) and “an eight-step creativity program” (this from the book jacket). What the book actually delivers is stories, examples, and creative tools that are loosely gathered into eight categories which the author has declared to be steps.
So, once I was over my undeserved disappointment, I began to realize I was getting much more from the book than I expected. No, it is not an eight-step or a ten-step or a twelve-step program. But is a useful collection of information, tools, and stories that will help anyone understand how to be more creative. One measure of how well a book of this type is working for me is the number of dog-eared pages. And there were quite a few when I finished. Ideas, tools, quotes – a nice collection of useful information.
None of the preceding is meant to imply that you shouldn’t follow Sawyer’s steps and exercises if you want to be better at creativity. In fact, for someone making their first forays into becoming more creative, this might be an approach that works. I’m just saying that, for anyone who has previously done any exploring in the world of creativity, the exercises will not be the reward.
And let’s talk about timing. It may be that part of the reason this book worked so well for me was that I read much of it on a plane flight headed to a presentation I was giving on (yes, you guessed it) creativity. The timing was perfect, and I wound up using much of the discovered information in that presentation. (And I will be using much of it in future presentations.) Does that make the book good? Not necessarily. Does it make it serendipitous? Probably. But it does show that, in the right mindset, there are lessons and ideas within this book that can be quite useful.… (meer)