Creativity (the Good Kind) Blog

Paul Torrance is one of the most respected thinkers in the field of creativity. He mentored my first mentor, Dr. Mary Murdock, who I first met at the Center for Applied Imagination at Buffalo State University. He is perhaps best known for the “Torrance Incubation Model” of creativity. It has three components: Step 1: Heighten […]

I have been a creativity practitioner in one form another since the late ’90s. Prior to that, I had been in creative fields such as advertising, communications, and design. Later, I became a creative catalyst for what are commonly called brainstorming sessions. I was an “idea-thinker-upper” for hire. I first learned CPS (Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem […]

Model of Creative Process by Graham Wallas (1858-1932) Have you ever been working tenaciously on a problem, determined not to finish working until the problem is solved? Type-A personalities are notorious for this. But often they are engaged in a process as futile as that of Sisyphus of Greek Mythology — You keeping pushing mightily […]