STEPS: of Creating Creators & Creators Creating--in Japanese--Volume 2 of 2: 64 Steps of Creators Creating: PLUS 48 dimensions of all cultures, 48 ... Their effects on all 64+64 Creativity Steps

This is the Japanese translation of the original English language book. The original book is more highly organized than any other book on creativity of any sort, at the time of this writing. The Japanese translation was done by a superb Tokyo University literature grad in dialog daily with the author. At places in the book English is left untranslated as the expressions are near impossible in Japanese and translation just confuses. These such are few however--most text is in just Japanese. The book was text for courses in becoming a creator at KEIO University, Kwansei Gakuin University, Kansai Gaidai University, and Temple University in Japan. The English original was used as text at the University of Michigan, MIT, the University of Chicago, TUDelft, and ETH. The original English version is on amazon selling as one ebooks combining BOTH volumes. Paperback versions, on volumes 1 and 2 for the English, will appear later this year. The universal assumption that creativity is one thing, was investigated by this author years ago, finding not 1 "process of creating" but 60 models, then 120 models of it, not 7 or 8 steps but 64 then 128 steps by which it gets done. The vastness of this territory, these large numbers, scare away both professors and CEOs. Everyone wants 7 simple steps or models--that is all minds wish to make effort for. Well, reality does not care a whit about such human effort limits. The author of this book also did work on updating foundational media-formats-interfaces of thought so they could handle far more ideas, more diverse ideas, more detailed ideas covering more territory than what top college minds and methods handle. This book and the author's others were written with 72 such new tools for thought. THIS BOOK IN PARTICULAR is structurally written. What does that mean? A structurally written book has EXOSKELETON not endoskeleton--that means its main points are highly ordered, carefully named, and highly visible in each chapter. That means the chapters themselves are in tight fractal multi-level sequence. The context around each chapter-step is that place in the overall ordering that it occupies--as in real estate--meaning is from location, location, location. Each step/chapter has main point name, description, a step by step method, 3 levels of applying that method, manga illustration by Yoshida a design genius, summary keywords. A study at the University of Chicago Grad School of Business attempted REDOING PLATO--defining "the good" and "excellence" not religiously or philosophically but empirically using modern methods. 54 "excellence sciences" were found--distinct routes to the top of nearly any field. Several of them were forms of creativity--design, innovation, composing, performing, tech venture launch, and so on. 60 then 120 models of creativity were found in how 8000+ top creators handled various actual cases (what is on their minds every 45 seconds was reported during hours of work). Not only did differing models were found and mapped as causal flows but a common sequence of steps kept showing up in parts of diverse models. Certain cognitive flows, skepticism flows, social flows, experimental flows were shared across differing creators and cases and models of creating. A research method was devised to capture this common flow of steps. Each creator's handling of cases was mapped for pairs of step, which one came before the other. 10,000s of these pairs by 8000+ eminent creators were then mathematically compressed into a few (128) steps nearly always in the same order). THAT produced this book.