Creativity and the Secret Language of the Mind

While completing his doctorate, David Jiles has worked as a consultant for many Fortune 500 companies as well as the United Nations helping them to solve a variety of very unusual problems. In his book, Creativity and the Secret Language of the Mind (LuLu Press, 2007), he suggests that we need to re-think thinking; to better understand the process of creativity. His research includes the study of the world's most popular creative artists: daVinci, Einstein, Hemingway, Picasso, Tesla, Beethoven and countless others to find common secrets towards creative thinking; and HE FOUND THEM. Creativity Portal is happy to share those exciting secrets in a series of articles. David may be contacted at david50jiles@gmail.com.

Creativity Articles by David Jiles

Rethinking Thinking
By David Jiles, Ph.D.
An introduction to the series that presents a dozen secrets of the mind shared among all for whom we identify as creative geniuses.

• Observation
  All knowledge begins in observation.

• Creative Imaging and Enhanced Insight
  Is creativity a learnable skill?

• Creative Abstracting
  Creative people in all disciplines use abstracting as an essential tool.

• Creativity in Pattern Recognition
  Simplifying what one sees often works in tandem with patterning, a tool with two parts.

• Body Imagination
  Thinking with the body depends on our sense of muscle movement, posture, balance, and touch.

• Dimensional Thinking
  Dimensional thinking involves moving from 2-D to 3-D or vice versa; mapping, and transforming information.

• Creative Modeling
  Modeling objects and concepts often requires some combination of dimensional thinking, abstracting, analogizing, and manipulative or body skill.

• The Role of Playing in Creativity
  There is no success or failure in play, no holding to account, no mandatory achievement.

• Our Dreaming Mind
  Creativity and dreaming are inextricably intertwined.