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A creative work is a tangible manifestation of creative effort such as literature, paintings, software, and this article. Creative works have in common a degree of arbitrariness, such that it is improbable that two people would independently create the same work. For other uses, see Literature (disambiguation). ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
The term is frequently used in the context of copyright law. Not to be confused with copywriting. ...
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Working with a team of PhDs, graduate students, and managers from various companies, she collected nearly 12,000 daily journal entries from 238 people working on creative projects in seven companies in the consumer products, high-tech, and chemical industries.
Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.
When people are excited about their work, there's a better chance that they'll make a cognitive association that incubates overnight and shows up as a creative idea the next day.