ABSTRACT
Talents and intelligence might be in genetic, but the parents of most extremely creative people usually did not have careers marked by extreme creativity, and most of the children of extremely creative people did not have careers marked by extreme creativity. Thus, the development of the creative brain is probably dependent on both nature and nurture. This chapter suggests that during the act of creative innovation it is helpful if a person is in a low state of arousal. The same principle might be also true for these centers of creativity. The chapter discusses the proposal that there are at least three stages of creative production: preparation, innovation, and verification or production. It also discusses some of the strategies that might be helpful in training people for each of these stages. The observation that American Jews appear to be intelligent and creative might be related not to genetic-hereditary factors but rather to cultural factors that induce biological alterations in the brain.
