The document discusses creative reinvention in late middle life through design methodologies. It references insights from creative individuals like Picasso, Lennon, and Burton. It also references insights from Jobs, Lucas, and Kalman regarding creativity and design. Finally, it outlines Graham Wallas' five stages of the creative process: preparation, incubation, intimation, illumination, and verification.

1. Hypothesis
Reinvention in late middle life through
creative “design”methodologies

2. Creative references: One
Insights
(1) Picasso
Cubism wasn’t new in terms of content, but new as a way of
seeing/expressing the content
(2) Lennon After leaving the Beatles John used his craft to
come to grips with life as he experienced it. (personal ideologies)
primal therapy on stage.
(3) Burton Influenced as a child by Corman horror films and
Vincent Price and adopted the role of the isolated misfit
triumphing over repressive mediocrity

3. Creative references: Two
Insights
(1) Jobs You can’t connect the dots in the future—only in the
past
(2) Lucas The man is the work—something doesn’t come out
of nothing
(3) Kalman Good design id “the unexpected and the untried”

4. Graham Wallas, Art of Thought, 1926
(1) preparation (preparatory work on a problem that focuses
the individual’s mind on the problem and explores the problems
dimensions)
(2) incubation (where the problem is internalized into the
unconscious mind and nothing appears externally to be
happening)
(3) intimation (the creative person gets a ‘feeling’ that a
solution is on its way)
(4) illumination or insight (where the creative idea bursts
forth from it preconscious processing into conscious awareness)
(5) verification (where the idea is consciously verified,
elaborated, then applied)