文档介绍：The Art of
Creative Thinking
London to San Francisco, 2004
The Art of Creative Thinking
1. Master your tools. selves visually were different, they each had to
I grew up in a household that was both master their respective tools from a creative as
creative and technical: my mother was a painter well as a technical standpoint in order to pro-
and printmaker; my father was an engineer duce the images they wanted. Whether I like it
whose hobby was photography. It was a fantastic or not, I realize that to achieve the results I’m
combination of left- and right-brain pursuits. after, I must master not only the camera, but
puters, software, printers, scanners—a
Denver to San Jose, 2003 I watched my mom draw and paint and whole host of various technologies. And, need-
then turn those images into beautiful, pin- less to say, those technologies will change as fast
registered, silkscreened works of art. At the as weather patterns over Denver.
same time, my father explored the landscape
with his black-and-white photographs and 2. Listen to what your life is trying to tell you.
converted the laundry room into a darkroom Although I loved making images, I went to
so that he could master developing and print- college at the University of California in Davis
ing. While both of them honed in on their cre- to e a psychologist. I enjoyed helping
ative goals, they also developed the technical people who were at a disadvantage and who
expertise to achieve them. might prosper if only they had the information
that they needed to make a change. I was
The first time I remember photographing with
also a petitive college athlete, so
my parents, we were in a ghost town in Nevada.
I supplemented my major in psychology with
My mom had always taught me to look at
a minor in sports therapy.
things in my own way, and I remember the only
important thing to me as I followed them In retrospect, it was a great contrast: the