“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
—Carl Jung
Steve Schlafmantwitter.com“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” —Carl Jung
You must never think at the typewriter — you must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway. (Ray Bradbury)
Maria Popova • What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”
Carl Jung
Real creativity is an inner thing. Once you go past your resistance to creativity, past the natural laziness the mind has—you get settled and ready to create, and it’s amazing how prolific and original you can become. The ego-mind will slow you down; it will make excuses. It will worry about how others might react. Worst of all, it is lazy and
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Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. Given that, it should hardly be surprising that key breakthroughs in thinking have taken place in times of play. Hallowell writes: “Columbus was at play when it dawned on him that the world was round. Newton was at play in his mind
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