Creativity, Analogy, Exploration & Problem Finding¶

Learning to learn

What you will develop¶

Generate diverse possibilities, identify promising anomalies, and choose questions worth pursuing.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Long-Term Memory, Schemas & Retrieval
• Practice: Retrieval, Spacing, Interleaving & Feedback
• Mental Models, Representation & Transfer
• Expertise, Deliberate Practice & Tacit Knowledge
• Metacognition, Calibration & Error Monitoring

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• divergent/convergent search
• analogy
• recombination
• curiosity
• incubation
• problem finding

Divergent and convergent search¶

Reconstruct -> apply -> perturb -> measure -> defend.

Analogy, recombination & abstraction¶

Reconstruct -> apply -> perturb -> measure -> defend.

Curiosity, anomaly detection & exploration¶

Reconstruct -> apply -> perturb -> measure -> defend.

Problem finding, selection & creative taste¶

Reconstruct -> apply -> perturb -> measure -> defend.

Intended demonstration¶

100 -> 10 -> 1 idea funnel + novelty/mechanism defense

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, 3rd ed.

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

Integrated practice | Choose a study route