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"Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative"  is a book by Austin Kleon that shows how creativity is for everyone through the use of some principles and strategies. The book also explains how all ideas are not original, but that “every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.” The idea that  ALL people have a huge potential for creativity  is one of the core ideas we would like to include in our new  STEM program  we are planning to start this coming school year (2015-2016). Here are some of the valuable quotes I found from the book: ❶ Steal Like an Artist “If we’re  free from the burden  of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can  embrace influence  instead of running away from it.” pg. 8 “Every new idea is just a  mashup or a remix  of one or more previous ideas.” pg. 9 “The artist is a...

Creative Confidence ,  a book by David and Tom Kelley, explains how  EVERYONE  can tap into their creative potential. It identifies numerous strategies and principles for creativity and innovation that can help people solve problems in their lives. One strategy the brothers,  David  and Tom, talked about throughout the book is  empathy . The human-centered approach of the  design thinking  process requires deep empathy (needs, motivations, and desires) and understanding of people. The design thinking approach is used to find solutions for specific users. The book mentions a tool called the  Empathy Map  that helps organize what users  say ,  think ,  do , and  feel  so that the  Needs  and  Insights  of the users can be identified. After the Needs and Insights are identified, a solution can be developed, prototyped, and tested for the user. The following is an Empathy Map that I ...