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Creativity does not happen inside peopleâs heads but in the interaction between a personâs thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.
Criteria For An Idea to Be Considered âCreativeâ:
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Creative people have complex personalities. They have the ability to move from one extreme to the other as needed.
Creative individuals have a great deal of physical energy, but they are also often quiet and at rest.
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time.
They are both playful and disciplined; responsible and irresponsible.
Creative individuals alternate between imagination and fantasy at one end, and a rooted sense of reality at the other.
Creative people seem to be both introverted and extroverted.
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One of the values in walking to work is mental meandering. Or if driving, not to have the car radio onâŚMental meandering, mind wandering and so on, is an essential process. If you are allowing that mentation to be driven by the radio or the television or other peopleâs conversations, you are just cutting down on your exploratory, your intellectual exploratory time.
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One must be in a position to access the domain in which one plans to work. Information is not distributed evenly in space but is clumped in different geographical nodes.
Novel stimulation is not evenly distributed. Some environments have a greater density of interaction and provide more excitement and a greater effervescence of ideas.
Access to the field is not evenly distributed in space. The centres that facilitate the realization of novel ideas are not necessarily the ones where the information is stored or where the stimulation is greatest.
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You must always have an obsession. You must always have too little time instead of too much
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Intentionally develop your weaker character traits.
Practice shifting from operating with an open mind and receptive to new ideas, to closed focus and concentration.
Aim for a complex personality. Allow yourself to become more and experience more.
Find problems that move you emotionally.
Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Do not rush to define a cause.
Experiment with many alternate solutions. Keep your options open.
Produce many different, unlikely and divergent ideas.
Too many people assume that most of the world is off-limits to them.
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Professor Csikszentmihalyi coined the term âflowâ to explain a theory on how we can achieve a mental state of peak performance and happiness. Now he uses that same theory and applies it to help us understand the creative process. Drawing upon nearly one hundred interviews with creative people in every field, this book explores the traits of creative people and helps us identify ways to encourage our own originality.
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