> Wallas outlines four stages of the #CreativeProcess
preparation,
incubation,
illumination, and
verification
dancing in a delicate osmosis of conscious and unconscious work... Wallas proposes a technique for optimizing the fruits of the Incubation stage — something our modern-day psychology of #productivity would come to confirm — by deliberately building interruptions of concentrated effort into our #workflow:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/28/the-art-of-thought-graham-wallas-stages/
#MariaPopova on #GrahamWallas #FourStagesOfThought
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
> “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.

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