Ask most people to identify a creative person, and they’ll probably describe an artist — Picasso, Shakespeare or even Lady Gaga.
But what about a Nobel prize–winning chemist? Or a team of engineers that figures out how to make a car engine operate more efficiently?
Creativity, it turns out, is not only the domain of painters, singers and playwrights, says Robert DeHaan, a retired Emory University cell biologist who now studies how to teach creative thinking.
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