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CreativityA Basic Operating System for All Human

Actions

Anders Lennart SwahnStaffan Svahn

www.creativityinaction.eu

Why Creativity?

Creativity has become the most highly

priced commodity in our economy.

Human creativity is the ultimate

economic resource. – Richard Florida

The result of Creativity is the

optimal experience called FLOW,

making our lives more interesting and

productive. Our future is now closely

tied to human creativity. – Mihaly

Csikszentmihalyi

Industry and business leaders

consider Creativity a top quality of

graduating engineering students.

Why is creativity not taught in schools?

No Science-based definition !

No Science-based approach !

What is Creativity?

Creativity is the ability to bring something into existence that was not there before. - Webster’s Dictionary

Creativity is the ability to bring something

into existence that was not there before -

from a possibility in the future.

It is generated from our inner domain of Being

How we perceive the world we live in - 1

The Space+Time world-view before Newton

How we perceive the world we live in - 2

The Space+Time world-view after Newton

How we perceive the world we live in - 3

The Space/Time world-view after Einstein

The Space/Time Reality or

Space+Time Reality ?

• We live in a Space/Time reality, which cannot be examined or understood with the help of our limited five senses.

• The part of our world we can examine andunderstand is a Space + Time reality.

Our External and Internal Realities

ReActions

The Basic Operating System for all Human Actions

We can’t be creative without good support

Creativity shows up in cooperation between people supporting each

other.

Creative Problem Solving

”The world we have made as a result of the level of

thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we

cannot solve at the same level at which we

created them.” - Albert Einstein

Problems created in Knowing can be solved through Being.

Human Resources Development

Consists of two main parts:1. Further developing the domain of Knowing

Adding more, better and/or different knowledge, experience, skills and competence to the already existing ones. This component is what all education and today concentrate on.

2. Using the domain of Being.The creativity component, which consists of explaining how we can generate creative actions from the domain of Being and the Basic Operating System for all Human Actions. It is from the Creative part that all development, progress, success, Flow and Aliveness will emerge.

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A basic course in Creativity will provide a Breakthrough in Education and it will significantly facilitate the students’ learning of all other

subjects.