文档介绍：PANEL DISCUSSION
Let Your
Creativity
Soar
MARIETTE DiCHRISTINA In a discussion with Scientific American Mind executive
is executive editor of Scientific
American Mind and Scientific editor Mariette DiChristina, three noted experts on
American. She has been
a journalist for more than creativit y, each with a very different perspective and
20 years. background, reveal powerful ways to unleash your
creat­ive self
Mariette DiChristina: Let’s start by talking about what has drawn each pstein
JOHN HOUTZ
is a psychologist and of you to the study of creativity. What’s so fascinating about it?
professor at Fordham
obert E
University. His most recent R
book is The Educational John Houtz: There’s so much power in a new idea taking shape and chang- d
Psychology of Creativity ing the way people live and act. Often the rest of us are in awe, or we are
(Hampton Press, 2002).
even afraid of a new idea, and sometimes our fears spur us to learn more eron an
about it. In addition to what some academics call Big Creativity or “Big m
C”—profound ideas that sometimes change the world—there is what we
JULIA CAMERON call the “little c” type of creativity: the everyday problem solving that we all
is an award-winning poet,
playwright and filmmaker. Her do. The bottom line is that we’d all like to be more creative. We’d all like to
book T