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5 Boring Ways to Become More Creative
The myth of the creative moment
The idea that creativity happens due to a moment of inspiration is false. Inspiration happens when you put in the time to be creative.
- Mozart and Beethoven each composed over 600 pieces of music. Their contemporaries composed less than 100.
- Picasso created more than 50,000 pieces of art. Most other professional artists produce a few hundred.
- Nobel prize winners produce nearly twice as much work compared to their colleagues.
- People like Beethoven or Picasso slogged away at their craft for decades to end up with a handful of brilliant pieces.
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Being Messy Works
While most of us strive towards neatness, being super organized and tidy isn’t always possible. Being unorganized and messy, on the other hand, comes easy to most.
Studies are pointing ...
Clutter: Catalyst To Creativity
Being in a mess is akin to breaking free of rules, norms and expectations, and the unkemptness lends itself to the flowing of mind’s juices. Keeping things tidy and cleaning up all the time can also hamper productivity by being a form of procrastination.
A mess can be looked upon as a wildness, a certain freedom of the mind.
The Wild Jungle
While a garden is all neat and organized, a wild jungle has its unique creative beauty.
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Early History
The connection between genius and possible insanity was first documented in 1891 in the Italian physicians’ book The Man Of Genius.
In 1869, this was taken up by the cousin of Charles Darwi...
Genius and Heredity
In a 1904 study by English physician Havelock Ellis, a list was made of 1030 individuals through extensive research, examining thoroughly the intellectual distinction people had by the various factors like heredity, general health, and social class.
These works established that genius minds are often hereditary.
Genetic Studies Of Genius
A body of work of Stanford psychologist Lewis M. Terman, was an in-depth multi-decade study of gifted individuals, and an attempt to improve the measurement of genius and its association with the degradation of mental stability. This also included an enhanced version of the French IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test.
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Apathetic Boredom
Unpleasant, but causes low levels of arousal and a lack of positive or negative feelings–in other words, a feeling of helplessness or depression.
It’s a common kind of boredom, ...
Reactant Boredom
The highest levels of arousal and negative emotions. It reflects significant restlessness and aggression.
A person in a reactant boredom state has persistent thoughts about specific, “more highly valued alternative situations”, a strong motivation to escape their boring situation and those responsible for it.
Searching Boredom
A more negative feeling reflecting a sense of unpleasant restlessness and an active search for ways out of the boredom mindset. A person might think about alternative activities, hobbies, leisure, or work.