Creative Genius List

LIST A

• Banksy (graffiti artist)
• Philip Glass (composer, minimalism)
• Joseph Campbell (mythologist)
• Carl Sagan (astrophysicist, cosmologist

LIST B

• Hal Cone (theologian, Black liberation theology)
• Limor Fried (electrical engineer, aka Lady Ada, open-source hardware)
• Jane Goodall (primatologist)
• Ai Weiwei (artist, cultural critic)

Review the list of names provided in the University of Phoenix: Creative Genius List.

Select two individuals who were famous for their creative ideas (one from each column).

Research their biographies in the University Library and/or respected sites on the Internet.

Write a 700-1,050- word paper to include the following:

• Information about each of the thinker's unique contributions to society
• The problems or issues that their ideas sought to solve
• Each thinkers' personal/social/political environments and how you think these factors contributed to their creativity
• The creative process of each thinker, including obstacles they faced, and a comparison to Ruggerio's creative process (refer to chapter 5 of The Art of Thinking)
• Critique a failure of the individual: could they have done something differently? What was the effect or result of the failure?