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Fredericks Fizzle While there are hundreds of books on how to be more creative at work and home, is the first book to explore the reasons why our creative spirit is in such short supply in the first place. Fizzle includes dynamic investigations that offer insights into the personal and societal barriers to creative expression. You’ll discover how your teachers mis-educated you, why the right answer is usually wrong, and the “killer phrases” that often get in the way of creative thinking. Fredericks reveals what creative souls and dynamic thinkers already know, and shows how a knowledge of creativity barriers can help you create innovative and is not the usual satisfying solutions in the workplace, your education, and your personal life! Entertaining, provocative, and fun, Fizzle: The Hidden Forces That Crush Our Creativity compendium of creativity strategies, but rather a book that examines why creativity is often a challenge and how that knowledge can change your life and change your thinking forever! Blue River Press $24.99 • 288 pgs • 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 9781681571874 Hardcover with Dust Jacket PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability 161 13 them, or they could punch their server in the nose when he brings you your prime rib well done, 10 B&W Illustrations ium rare. instead of med on the left to the dot on the right would be the simplest and quickest way to respond to the However, the plethora of rules we are subjected to over the span of our lives also affects Index have in our lives, the more ordered our directions. Perhaps you were thinking of that familiar axiom, “The shortest distance between our creative impulses. That is to say, we become comfortable with our adherence to rules and, as two points is a straight line.” Or, perhaps you were thinking of a recent trip you took in which a result, less apt to challenge them. The more rules we you had to get from one point (your home) to another point (the doctor’s office) in the quickest thinking becomes. The more ordered our thinking, the less inclined we are to alter the status amount of time. So, instead of taking a scenic route or any back roads, you drove in as straight a quo. In turn, we are more inclined to be mentally compliant. And that is a problem when we line as you could. Connecting the two dots with an equally straight line seemed to be the most have a challenge to solve. reasonable and certainly the most logical way to respond to the directions (Of course, you may To use a hackneyed analogy, all the rules in our lives put us in a mental “box.” It’s our thinking. We also have been unfairly influenced by the quote just under the chapter title.). difficult for us to break out of that box, because its very “weight” depresses our creative For most of your life, you have been trained or “conditioned” to do many tasks in a very impulses. According to at least one researcher, they create a mental lock on predictable and time-efficient manner. Maybe you really wanted to draw a hammock between are more inclined to think about things as they currently are, rather than things as they could be. ICASSO the two dots, but your brain told you to do something else: Do it the way you have been Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. —PABLO P conditioned to do it or do it the way everyone else will do it. Without realizing it, you suppressed your “creative mind” in favor of your “logical mind.” letters so that the remaining letters, Exercise The chief enemy of creativity is “good sense.” In the following line of letters, cross out five —PABLO PICASSO without changing their order, will spell a familiar English word. C F R I V E E A L T E T I T V E R I T S Y Let’s examine that concept a little further. In the exercise above, you may have been predisposed-one letters to to identify follow fivethe rules.individual That letters is, you rough the entire line of twenty Look at the figure to the left. How many squares do you see? may have searched th s on a standardized that could be eliminated, thus leaving a series of letters that spelled a common word. After all, in school, you learned to follow the rules explicitly when answering question -made exam (thus increasing your chances of getting “The Right Answer”). You Most people will see sixteen squares in the figure. Interestingly, much of your education test or a teacher -stated rule, but were frustrated at your inability to obtain a satisfactory answer. has been structured so that you will answer the question above with a single (and most followed that oft the line of letters above and cross out the following satisfactory) response: sixteen. In other words, you have been mentally trained to seek out the But, let’s break that rule. Go back to one perfect answer to any single question (one question = one answer). If you got sixteen, then “five letters”: F I V E L E T T E R S. You’ll discover that the remaining letters spell: pat yourself on the back—you answered the question correctly. CREATIVITY (a familiar English word). What I’d like you to realize is that your education and aining have “conditioned” your mind to look at a problem (actually most professional tr e all right. But did you? problems) in a certain way: If you follow the rules, you’ll get the answer. That’s what your Take another look at the figure. Forget about sixteen similarly-sized, equal-dimensioned parents said, your teachers said, and your boss(es) said. Play by the rules and you’ll b tiny squares. Look for squares of different sizes (large, small) or different dimensions. For example, a square could be composed of four smaller squares all together (two squares by two Marketing About the Author • Press release with offer of a review copy • You Tube videos on creativity Anthony D. Fredericks, Ed.D. is a nationally recognized educator well known for his practical teacher materials and stimulating and engaging conference presentations. • Author appearances at bookstores, book fairs, and libraries A retired professor of education from York College of Pennsylvania, he is an