Creativity
the art of creativity
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Creativity
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • 6 highlights
goodreads.comWhen Generalists Are Better Than Specialists, and Vice Versa
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Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
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As individuals, if we want to be creative, we need to give ourselves space to play and experiment without a set agenda. Amos Tversky famously said that the secret to doing good work is being a little unemployed so you always have hours in the day to waste as you wish. During that wasted time, you’ll likely have your best, most creative ideas.
“Jootsing”: The Key to Creativity
Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
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one of the latest big theories in neuroscience says that humans are fundamentally creatures of prediction, and not only is creativity not at odds with that, but it actually goes hand in hand with improving our predictive power. Life itself, in this view, is one big process of creatively optimizing prediction as a survival strategy in a universe... See more
Oshan Jarow • Your mind needs chaos
Highly creative people are usually absent-minded, as their brains spend most of the time connecting dots that seem to have no connection.
Named after the economist Charles Goodhart, the principle states, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Measurement is only useful when it guides you and adds context to a larger picture, not when it consumes you. Each number is simply one piece of feedback in the overall system.