What other comments do you have about Chapter 1 categories? Here is the place to discuss the 5-step creative process, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, the creative personality, wind vs. sweat, and anything else in Chapter 1.
Creativity
Theory and Practice
Interdisciplinary thinking is something new to the maritime industry. In years past, you were either deck side or an engineer. Before you could start your academy experience, you had to decide on whether you wanted to take the red pill or the blue pill. Your path would be narrow with few exits, much like a bowling alley with the inflatable bumpers installed. But times change and with them come paradigm shifts. The transportation industry has changed concurrently with the changes in technology and communications. The maritime industry is now more closely knit. The success of any one ship or company relies heavily on both ship and shore personnel. To meet the new demands within the maritime industry, CMA now offers non-license track majors. These new majors offer cadets shore side careers that are now critical to the overall success of the maritime industry. This shift in industry thinking is supported by Captain Bolton. He has commented both publicly and privately to receptive cadets. His experience and views regarding this shift in industry have been purposely shared in an effort to bring the CMA community closer together. Having closer knit between the licensed and non-licensed majors can only prepare cadets for the current trends in maritime business.
After reading most of your book for our Creativity class, I believe that chapter one was a great intro to, not only what to expect in the class, but on how to tackle creativity as a whole. One of my favorite parts of the first chapter is the breakdown of the 5 steps. This is really applicable to any creative project that you can think of. It is comforting to know that any creator of any caliber faced the steps and the creative blocks that I face today. The steps really help to lay the creative path out for you and let the creator know what to expect, not necessarily when, but at least it will be in some sort of ordered sequence.
As far as the wind and sweat theories, I was very impressed by the insight I received on both of those as well. I personally have gone through both wind and sweat process while working on projects. I have worked very hard to perfect and finish a project, and at the same time, I have gained inspiration from unseen and supernatural sources while working on projects. I found it very comforting and informative to see these two processes on print, to not only reassure me that im not crazy, but to be able to relate to other creators and their process as well.