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Creativity
The term creativity refers to mental processes that lead to solu-
tions, ideas, concepts, artistic expression, theories or products
that are unique and novel. Because it is such a diverse subject in
which there are so many different ways in which creativity mani-
fests itself, and because in so many people it is to a great extent
unexplored, creativity is very difficult to measure.
The French mathematicians, Poincaré and Hadamard, defined
the following four stages of creativity:
Preparation: the attempt to solve a problem by normal means
Incubation: when you feel frustrated that the above methods have
not worked and, as a result, you then ...