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bs2 Feb 17, 2023

> English social psychologist and #LondonSchoolOfEconomics co-founder #GrahamWallas, sixty-eight at the time, penned The #ArtOfThought — an insightful theory outlining the four stages of the #CreativeProcess, based both on his own empirical observations and on the accounts of famous inventors and polymaths.. out of print, with surviving copies sold for a fortune and available in a few public libraries..
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/28/the-art-of-thought-graham-wallas-stages/
#MariaPopova #Thinking #Wallas Is #Incubation related to #niksen?

The Art of Thought: A Pioneering 1926 Model of the Four Stages of Creativity

How to master the beautiful osmosis of conscious and unconscious, voluntary and involuntary, deliberate and serendipitous.

The Marginalian

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bs2 Feb 15, 2023

> “In the daily stream of thought these four different stages constantly overlap each other as we explore different problems.”
> .. #Wallas refers to a 1891 speech made by German Physicist, #HermannVonHelmholtz.. known for contributions in energy, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics.. the physicist described his process for creating new ideas..
> Wallas then elaborates on the meaning of verification by referring to #HenriPoincaré
https://www.designreview.byu.edu/collections/graham-wallas-the-creative-process
The #ArtOfThought #Helmhotz #Poincare

Graham Wallas: The Creative Process — The BYU Design Review

Graham Wallas proposed one of the first formal models of the creative process. Simple and insightful, this model has continued to inspire creative people throughout the world. This article reduces Wallas’s description of that process to just a few paragraphs designed to introduce you to this model.

The BYU Design Review