Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough

Imagination takes the stuff of observation and experience and recombines them into something new.

The deepest cases of creativity involve someone’s thinking something which, with respect to the conceptual spaces in their minds, they  couldn’t  have thought before. The supposedly impossible idea can come about only if the creator changes the pre-existing style in some way. It must be tweaked, or even radically transformed, so that tho

Constraint is a story of accepting new limits. In a constraint scenario, we respond to a threat or problem by agreeing to new restrictions and new kinds of self-discipline.