ABSTRACT
The ultimate purpose of creativity is to change ideas or create new ones. These two processes are often mixed up together but they can be separated as follows: Escape from old ideas and Generation of new ideas. Any study of deliberate, purposeful creativity is inevitably a study of thinking processes involved in problem-solving. One approach to creativity is to see it as a process involving information-gathering and processing, the recognition of existing patterns and the discovery of new patterns within existing data. Any approach to creativity needs to confront and escape mindset-structures by overcoming the interlocking and mutually supporting obstacles of The past, Stress, Coyote problem-solving, and Comfort. The words 'strange' and familiar' are the basis of generating new ideas. After much experimentation and arguments about what constitutes a line, and how define continuous lines, people generally come up with the idea of beginning to draw the four continuous lines from outside the 'box' formed by the nine-dot formation.
