🤔 from Ken Robinson’s foreword to Lifelong Kindergarten: “Creativity is a step beyond imagination: it is putting your imagination to work.”
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I found that characterization really surprising—somehow seems too narrow?—but I don’t have a better angle on creativity vs imagination.
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It sounds good to me! Perhaps a slightly different angle: imagination doesn’t have to solve problems; creativity is more likely to.
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I picture a filtering step between those two. To me, creativity includes knowing/moving the boundary between impossible vs. possible.
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I guess I don't love the “beyond”. It’s so much more cyclical than that! Creative creations create imagined images, imaged onto new creation
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Mm… something normative about “beyond”!
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