7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

Cooperative writing occasionally requires spontaneity and creativity.
It is an artistic process that triggers the interaction of rational
thought and emotional perception in both hemispheres of the brain.
Many people generally think they are not creative and that cooperative
forms of writing are not “their thing.” However, they overlook
the fact that people basically do nothing more than think associatively.
Thus, everyone is creative in some area: in landscaping, mixing
music or even in destruction (for instance, some wiki “moths”).
In creativity research as well as education science, the realization has
meanwhile taken hold that creativity is learned and, for example, can
be promoted with combinatorial analysis games and mind maps.
Writing has always also had a psychosocial component. Here are
just three tips in that regard:
1. Individuals seek to obtain attention from others. The fact that
their own ideas are perceived and discussed plays an important
role in interactivity, dynamics, creativity and motivation. That
is why so many management guidebooks recommend good old
backslapping to more or less manipulate employees. When it is
about cooperation and creativity, not only open and goaloriented
criticism is required, but also truthful statements regarding
what one liked or found helpful.
2. A hostile climate encumbers creativity by instilling a fear of
disgrace. Also, open, associative thinking in a group is prevented
by social blocks. Cave painter Hanna will think twice
about what she says if her teacher or the cult community supervisor
is within earshot – and vice versa.
3. Everyone has writer's block from time to time. The thought
that a text must first be finished before being published is
paralyzing. In such cases, it can be helpful to start writing as
early as possible and begin with small articles. The wiki philosophy
assumes that starting is more important than waiting
for the perfect version. 11 “Ignore all rules,” is the call Wikipedia
makes to its new authors to illustrate the fact that they
should not shy away from what has in the meantime become a
mountain of conventions, but rather release texts as quickly as
possible for further processing.
11 Just think of Linus Torvald's method of releasing texts early and of-
ten.
18.2 Collecting Cooperative Ideas and Generating Project Outlines
Creativity is
learnable
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