• Epiphany
  
• Intuition
  
• Inspiration
  
• Taking something not obvious and making it obvious
  
• I wish I had thought of that
  
• A different way of seeing things
  
• Unique
  
• Astounding
  
• Different perspective
  
• Out of the box thinking
  
• Surprising
  
• Eccentric
  
• Different
  

• Brainstorming
  
• Spontaneous
  
• Intuition
  
• Imagination
  
• Revelation
  
• Freedom of expression
  
• Adaptation
  
• Weird
  
• Innovative
  
• Solutions
  
• Renewing existing ideas
  
• Different perspective
  
• Aha!
  
• Originality
  
• Pregnant
  

• Point of view
  
• Revolutionary
  
• Extraordinary
  
• Bringing together two ideas that have never previously been associated
  
• Bisociation
  
• Overlaying a different perspective on something
  
• Themes
  
• Something that is new
  
• Something outside the ordinary/normal
  
• Spontaneous
  

• Vision/sight
  
• Shift in how we see things
  
• See Miller, p. 36 (a business consultant's point of view)
  
• Thinking up new ideas
  
• Making something tangible
  
• Actually creating the communications satellites envisioned by Arthur Clarke
  
• Producing an event
  
• Organizing people or projects
  
• Doing something spontaneous
  
• Building relationships
  
• Changing your "inner self"

What's the most extraordinary example of creativity you can think of?

What's the most creative thing you personally have ever done?

• Published short stories
  
• College debate on superiority of men vs. women
  
• Recorded music w/ car keys
  
• Prize-winning photograph of SP 4449 steam locomotive
  
• Presentations on "Practicing Law in the New Millennium"
  
• My resume
  
• Home cure for sick child
  
• Helped write script and filmed an independent movie

• Einstein's theory of relativity
  
• Jules Verne (trips to the Moon)
  
• Leonard deVinci (flying machines, helicopters, bridges, multiple-shot canons)
  
• Wright Brothers (airplane)
  
• Apollo 13 ground team

• Shakespeare
• Beethoven / Bach / Tchaikovsky / Hendrix
  
• Edison
  
• Ansel Adams
  
• Parenting
  
• Star Trek/Star Wars
  
• Holodeck
  
• Bob Dylan
  
• Primogeniture
  
• Mozart

• Standard operating procedures
  

• The way we do things here
  
• Tradition
  
• Lack of trust
  
• Fear of reactions
  
• Thinking too much about something
  
• Lack of self-confidence
  
• Depending on books
  
• Focus on self instead of the problem
  
• Lack of vision
  
• Expectations of certain results
  
• Lack of drive
  
• Lack of money
  
• Lack of time
  
• Teachers expecting certain answers
  
• Grades
  
• Lack of freedom of expression
  
• Education
  
• Cultural or religious beliefs

• Assumptions
• Abundance
  
• Fear
  
• Homogeneity
  
• Need to fit in/be part of community
  
• Acting within the cultural norm
  
• Censorship
  
• Pressures for conformity
  
• Previous successes
  
• Embeddedness
  
• Someone who has never faced a problem before can be more creative
  
• Children are not very embedded
  
• It often does not take much to nudge us out of our embeddedness
  
• Lack of humor
  
• Abundance
  
• Fear of failure
  
• Specialization
  
• Compartmentalization