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Question 24 : The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
Creativity is now viewed as the engine of economic progress. Various organizations are devoted to its study and promotion; there are encyclopedias and handbooks surveying creativity research. But this proliferating success has tended to erode creativity's stable identity: it has become so invested with value that it has become impossible to police its meaning and the practices that supposedly identify and encourage it. Many people and organizations committed to producing original thoughts now feel that undue obsession with the idea of creativity gets in the way of real creativity.

Explanatory Answer

According to the paragraph, the undue obsession with the idea of creativity today is actually getting in the way of real creativity. Option B sums up the paragraph well.
While the paragraph talks about the obsession with the idea of creativity and how that is hampering creativity, option A talks of the obsession with 'original thought' making it difficult to define the concept. This is incorrect. Option C blames the industry that has built up researching creativity for the destruction of the creative process. This is too extreme and not what the paragraph says. Option D says that the proliferation of creativity has stifled the creative process. This is incorrect.

The answer is 'The value assigned to creativity today has assumed such proportions that the concept itself has lost its real meaning and this is hampering the engendering of real creativity.'

Choice B is the correct answer.

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