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1 We all take pride and pleasure in being called smart or intelligent. But
when someone says to us "How creative you are!"
compliment! But what does this really mean? What exactly is creativity?
One definition says that creative people have the ability to: generate
brand-new ideas or concepts, and make (7) unprecedented connections
between ideas and concepts that already exist. Which brings up another
question: Where does creativity stem from? Neuroscience is actively
investigating how creativity works in the brain. So far it has found that in
highly creative people, the various regions of the brain work especially
well together. There is a high level of cooperation and communication
among those regions. (1) This makes for (イ) divergent thought, a key
aspect of creativity. But whether creative people's brains are born that
way, or whether they learn to be creative is still not clear. It's the old
question of "nature" versus "nurture."
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