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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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Detach yourself from conventional notions of what creativity means, and you’ll see it everywhere.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
In its many splendors—playful yet profitable, extraordinary yet universally human, the driver of human progress and the thing that will save us from it—creativity is something of a cult object, something we project all of our desires and anxieties onto, imbued with almost mystical powers, and beyond rebuke.
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
In modern Western and Eastern cultures, creativity is now understood as deeply embedded in the fabric of daily life. From something that is exclusive to higher-level entities, whether deities or nature itself, it has evolved into an ability anyone can practice at various levels, whether it is to create art or to perform small acts of innovation as ... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative Aliveness: Turning Life Into a Creative Adventure
Sir Ken Robinson, who has made the study of creativity in schools his life’s work, has observed that instead of fuelling creativity through play, schools can actually kill it: “We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it’s impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies…. Imagin
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
There’s no formula, or source from which you can easily and consistently tap for a wellspring of creativity, but there are certainly some general rules, such as the fairly basic claim that good inputs are a prerequisite for good outputs. The notion that an artist can live with indifference—absorbing junky content, having junky conversations, inhabi... See more
The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas.
Rebecca Solnit • Men Explain Things to Me
“By the time I reached adulthood I was pretty sure I was creative, and I considered this a good thing. I grew up in the 1980s in a milieu in which creativity was encouraged. My parents signed me up for pottery and music lessons and something called Odyssey of the Mind, where kids competed against students from other schools in skits and in quickly
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