ABSTRACT
We all have opportunities to deploy creative thinking in everyday life. Before looking seriously at research on creative thinking and its teaching, let me mention two cases in point. A friend and colleague, Steve Schwartz of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, recently told me of a situation where he needed to cut a piece of cheese, with no knife at hand. He wondered if he had something knifelike—and an answer occurred to him. He drew his wallet out of his pocket, his credit card out of the wallet, and cut the cheese with the credit card. “Don't leave home without it!”
