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Document Information
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Manuscript page / article draft (evidence from house oversight investigation)
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1.36 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page from a manuscript or article discussing the philosophical history of creativity, contrasting Ancient Greek views with the Renaissance. It includes a first-person anecdote about solving a lateral thinking puzzle from Edward de Bono's book 'A Five-day Course in Thinking' and features a photograph of Steve Jobs holding an iPhone. The document bears a House Oversight Bates stamp, indicating it was part of a congressional document production.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Steve Jobs | Subject of photograph |
Pictured holding an iPhone with caption 'Steve Jobs shows the iPhone'
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| Edward de Bono | Author/Subject |
Mentioned in text as author of 'A Five-day Course in Thinking' and a prolific writer on creativity
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| Unnamed Author | Narrator |
The person writing in the first person ('One of my childhood memories...', 'It took me after 2 hours')
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Organizations (1)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'
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Timeline (2 events)
Unknown (Childhood memory)
Author attempted to solve a lateral thinking puzzle involving milk bottles, knives, and a glass of water.
Kitchen floor
Locations (1)
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Location of the author's childhood memory
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Relationships (1)
Author recounts childhood memory of using De Bono's book 'A Five-day Course in Thinking'
Key Quotes (3)
"The ancient Greeks believed there was no such thing as creativity."Source
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"It wasn’t until the Renaissance, 1500 years later, that humans began to appreciate that they create knowledge"Source
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Quote #2
"De Bono, now in his 80s, is a prolific writer with over 60 publications to his name"Source
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (1,484 characters)
The ancient Greeks believed there was no such thing as creativity. Our job, as humans, was to look at the earth and discover things about it. When we looked at light passing through water or built a boat to travel on it, we were discovering, not inventing. Shipwrights did not invent boats they were simply building inevitable forms. Everything there was to know already existed, we just hadn’t realized it yet. Of course, Greek playwrights were busy ‘creating’ the first plays; tragedies, comedies and the like, but serious thinkers thought of them as documenting the human condition. It wasn’t until the Renaissance, 1500 years later, that humans began to appreciate that they create knowledge, and this started us on our quest to understand creativity.
One of my childhood memories is sitting on the kitchen floor with a glass of water and surrounded by knives and milk bottles. I was trying to solve one of the problems from Edward de Bono’s book on lateral thinking, A Five-day Course in Thinking. De Bono, now in his 80s, is a prolific writer with over 60 publications to his name – all aimed at making us more creative. His books pose a series of practical problems, each needing progressively greater creative intelligence. The particular problem I was trying to solve was to balance a glass of water on knives suspended from four milk bottles. It took me after 2 hours.
One of my childhood memories is sitting on the kitchen floor with a glass of water and surrounded by knives and milk bottles. I was trying to solve one of the problems from Edward de Bono’s book on lateral thinking, A Five-day Course in Thinking. De Bono, now in his 80s, is a prolific writer with over 60 publications to his name – all aimed at making us more creative. His books pose a series of practical problems, each needing progressively greater creative intelligence. The particular problem I was trying to solve was to balance a glass of water on knives suspended from four milk bottles. It took me after 2 hours.
[Image: Photograph of Steve Jobs holding an iPhone]
Steve Jobs shows the iPhone
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