What's Your Problem?

 

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Introduction: what’s your problem?

1. More than fifty years’ of research. What I refer to as “reframing” in this book has a variety of names in the research literature, including “problem finding,” “problem discovery,” “problem formulation,” “problem construction,” and others. The primary concentration of scientific research into reframing has taken place within the field of creativity studies, starting with the empirical explorations of Jacob Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1971, and continuing through the contributions of scholars such as Michael Mumford, Mark Runco, Robert Sternberg, Roni Reiter-Palmon, and many others.

The full history of reframing, however, is much broader than that. Problem diagnosis is central to pretty ...