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Defining Creativity
Creativity does not happen inside people’s heads but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.
Criteria For An Idea to Be Considered “Creative”:
- Be couched in terms that are understandable to others.
- Pass muster with the experts of the field.
- Be included in the cultural domain to which it belongs.
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Obstacles to Creativity
- We are exhausted by too many demands.
- We are easily distracted.
- We are lazy and lack discipline for controlling the flow of energy.
- We do not know what to do with the energy we do have.
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Elements Of Finding Flow
- There are clear goals every step of the way.
- There is immediate feedback to one’s actions.
- There is a balance between challenges and skills.
- Actions and awareness are merged.
- Distractions are excluded from consciousness.
- There is no worry of failure.
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You must always have an obsession. You must always have too little time instead of too much
EVA ZEISEL
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Motivating Creativity
- Creative people all love what they do. It is not the hope of achieving fame or making money that drives them; rather, it is the opportunity to do the work that they enjoy doing.
- Most people enjoy “designing or discovering something new.”
- We are also motivated by the force of ...
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Enhance your Creativity
- When we live creativity, we banish boredom.
- Stop wasting energy on selfish goals. Explore the world around you for its own sake. Be curious.
- Try to be surprised by something every day.
- Try to surprise at least one person every day.
- Keep a journal and write the...
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One of the values in walking to work is mental meandering. Or if driving, not to have the car radio on…Mental 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 people’s...
DONALD CAMPBELL
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Creativity: Now You Know!
- Creative individuals tend to operate at the extremes.
- The creative process is recursive, not linear. Mental meandering to allow the commingling of ideas is an essential process.
- Creativity comes from the heart. There is no other motivation other than the joy of discovering...
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Explore Yourself
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 emo...
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A Creative Surrounding
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 exc...
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Five Steps Of The Creative Process
- Preparation: Immersing oneself in the problem and sparking curiosity
- Incubation: Time to allow the ideas to church around in the subconscious where unusual connections can be made
- Insight: The “Aha!” moment
- Evaluation: Deciding whether the insight is valuable and wort...
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The Ways Of Creative People
- Creative people are curious
- Parental support is instrumental in helping children succeed amidst a poor or socially marginal background.
- Creative people seem to come from exceptionally supportive childhoods or very deprived and challenging ones. Very few come from middle-class...
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Traits Of A Creative Person
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 t...
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Ideas for Creating an Inspiring Environment
- The evidence suggests that unusual and beautiful surroundings may in face help us see situations more holistically and from novel viewpoints.
- How one spends time in a beautiful natural setting seems to matter as well. Just sitting and watching is fine, but taking a leisurely walk see...
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Professor Csikszentmihalyi coined the term “flow” 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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