Creativity - described via einstein
Einstein sometimes referred to the source of his ideas as "playing" with "images." When he described the process in his own words, the childlike approach and the interplay of the two hemispheres seems clearly evident.
"The worlds or the language, as they are written or spoke, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs (symbols) and more or less clear images which can be "voluntarily" reproduced and combined.
There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above mentioned elements. But taken from a psychological viewpoint, this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought - before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.
The above mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type. Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will."
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