# learning to be creative

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-be-creative/590024>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-be-creative/590024 "2011-07-22T20:37:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![curiousprincegeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@curiousprincegeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curiousprincegeorge)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-be-creative/590024/1 "2011-07-22T20:37:23Z")

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I have read some of edward do bono’s ideas of thinking and I have been exposed to ideas from altshuller and his TRIZ.  
I was wondering can anybody name other people who tried to develop ways for people to become more creative and wrote ideas on the subject of thinking and creativity?

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-be-creative/590024/2 "2011-07-23T04:16:54Z")

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One of my coworkers was recently reading A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative by Roger von Oech which is _not_ a book anyone who knows me wants me to read, so I can’t tell you if it’s any good. I couldn’t recall the title so I did a google image search for “book more creative thinker” to find the cover and it came up with apparently similar books as well: Idea Factory; Thinkertoys; Cracking Creativity…