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Your deep creativity is subversive. It doesn’t care what your mother thinks, what your friends believe, or the institutional norms of your career. Creative terrain lies OUTSIDE of the institution that you work for, the social system that you grew up in, or what’s currently trending on social media.
Many highly creative individuals spent time in their childhoods creating their “own worlds,” which the authors termed “paracosms.” In these made-up fantasy worlds, these future creative geniuses were free to create new languages, rules, and social systems.
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The essential starting point of artistic consciousness is acknowledging that something is “more than I can possibly know.”
“Knowing” is not a creative state. It’s when we don’t know that we’re open to new information, ideas, and experiences in ways that we aren’t otherwise.
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Your loves and passions are what inspire you to produce great things. Your passion is what keeps you going when you encounter resistance or difficult people, or experience setbacks or rejections. Valuing your heart’s longings will give you the courage to try out new directions and bravely explore...
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Although we live in a world that prizes instant gratification, deep creative work still requires focused attention.
If you have unfinished projects and unresolved things that are consuming your mental energy, you’ll need to clear those up before your creativity can flourish. If something is...
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Our best creative work is most likely to be intrinsically motivated, rather than motivated by extrinsic rewards like money.
When we’re intrinsically motivated, we do an activity because it’s inherently satisfying, not fo...
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Nurturing environments (and people) inspire the creative. Natural and beautiful environments “feed” the brain and support the production of new neurons, while ugly, unstimulating environments stop the brain’s generative process.
If you’re procrastinating, unmotivated, or generally “blah,” a...
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Our culture has long viewed creativity in ways that don’t serve us. On one hand, we view it as frilly and unnecessary—something we do for fun in our free time. And on the other hand, we think of it as a tool to help us build careers, make more money, and establish a name ...
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Creative intelligence—the ability to come up with new ideas—is one of three main types of intelligence, alongside the ability to get along in differe...
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