''Applied Imagination'' is an influential
1953
book
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on creative ideation by
Alex Faickney Osborn, in which he introduces the technique of
brainstorming
Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to divergent thinking, suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically placed on the volume and variety of ideas, including ideas that may seem o ...
.
Chapters
# The all-importance of
imagination
Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself. These experiences can be re-creations of past experiences, such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or completely invented and possibly fantastic scenes ...
# Indispensability of
creativity
Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable Idea, ideas or works using one's imagination. Products of creativity may be intangible (e.g. an idea, scientific theory, Literature, literary work, musical composition, or joke), or a physica ...
in
science
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
#
Career
A career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work (human activity), work and other aspects of personal life, life. There are a number of ways to define career and the term is used in a variety of ways.
Definitions
The ...
s depend largely on creativity
# Creativity in
leadership
Leadership, is defined as the ability of an individual, group, or organization to "", influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or organizations.
"Leadership" is a contested term. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the co ...
and professions
# Imagination can improve
personal relations
# Universality of imaginative
talent
# Ways by which creativity can be developed
# Our new
environment - its effect on creativity
# Other factors that tend to cramp creativity
# Creative and non-creative forms of imagination
# The process of
ideation vary widely
#
Orientation calls for setting our sights
#
Preparation and
analysis
Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (38 ...
go hand in hand
Editions
* Osborn, Alex F. (1953). ''Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem Solving''. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
**Revised edition, New York, Scribner, 1957
**3rd ed. New York C. Scribner 1963
**French translation by Georges Rona and Pierre Dupont, ''L'Imagination constructive. Principes et processus de la Pensée créative et du Brainstorming'', Paris, Dunod, 1959.
**Chinese translation by Ikkō Shō, ''応用想像力'' Taipei : Kyōshi Kōgyō Sōsho Shuppan Kofun Yūgen Kōshi, 1965
References
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Creativity
Group problem solving methods
1953 non-fiction books