Mind Wandering and Mindfulness During Innovation: An Outline and an Illustration in Poetry
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2023
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Palgrave Macmillan
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I present an outline of the abilities and dispositions relevant for innovation in the twenty-first century. Explaining this outline, I discuss how intelligence and creativity relate to two attentional dispositions: mindfulness and mind wandering. I argue that understanding creative problem solving and innovation requires studying the interaction between intelligence, creativity, and these attentional dispositions. To do so, I summarize the twentieth-century maps of human intelligence and their limitations. Second, I use a computational metaphor to discuss the role of intelligence, creativity, and attentional dispositions in creative problem solving. Third, I review some evidence about the relationship between human abilities and attentional dispositions. Finally, to provide an illustration, I discuss the process of innovation in poetry.
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Creativity, Intelligence, Mind wandering, Mindfulness, Poetry