The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativity
Because we tend to gravitate toward possibilities, many creative people wrestle with focus. We can quickly become fascinated with new ideas or bounce from unsolved problem to unsolved problem without really solving any of them.
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
Your anxiety isn’t a creative liability; it’s a sign that you care deeply about your work. And the difference between creative paralysis and creative flow isn’t the absence of anxiety—it’s the presence of curiosity alongside it.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativity
3 Ways to Make the Most of Uncertain Times
Losing a job, taking on a new challenge, preparing to launch a project, moving to a new country – these transitions create what anthropologists call “liminal spaces” – the fertile but uncomfortable in-betweens where transformation happens.
Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity
... See moreFocusing on positive possibilities can also help us get psyched about our curiosity projects. The curious people whom I have talked to say, “I can make that better”—whatever “that” may be. Scientific studies have shown that people who focus on aspirations and accomplishments when they pursue goals—people with a promotion focus—are more likely to ac
... See moreDr Costas Andriopoulos • Purposeful Curiosity
