Creative in the Small

Every step is a decision.
- The alternatives come from intuition.
- In art the decision is also intuitive, while in engineering it is computed from the alternatives. Research is intermediate.
While it is possible to be methodical in your research, there is no algorithmic method.
- In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a method guaranteed to produce an accurate answer. In computer science, it is also required to finish in finite time.
- The scientific method is methodical, but it is not an algorithm.