How do we grow new ideas?
Being a creative and and educator, I often find times when the struggle to explain the task of getting to an idea is further complicated by the need to understand that the students are in fact novice to all this. I did a lot of my research into Lateral Thinking and ideas when I was doing my Masters degree, some twelve years back now. Since then I have explored, read, watched, combined many theories and examples of how to get to the that idea. Whether its the hard toil or eureka moment, there are practices in place that can aid in the coming forth of good and even great ideas. Needless to say, that bad ideas are the metaphorical swamp that many a creative person finds themselves in at the start of any adventure into the creative world. So, we can only really pick ourselves up out of the mire of mediocrity and do better. If you take our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, they have a knack of problem solving not far removed from the basic process of human endeavour. When challenge...