Mind · Strategy
Creative
Generating novelty and value
Definition
Mechanism
The cognitive mode focused on generating novel and valuable ideas, artifacts, or solutions. It involves divergent thinking, making remote associations, and breaking established patterns.
Invariants
- Requires both novelty and value; novel but worthless is not Creative.
- A marker: descendants supply the behaviour, this card defines none.
Risks
Failure modes
Novelty alone
an output is unprecedented and useless, and is called creative anyway.
Value alone
competent execution of a known solution is called creative.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Used by
Extends
Concept blending with novelty and value acceptance
References
Reframe -> Optimize -> Translate loop
Society
Guidance on deep structure vs surface features
Reference