Creativity
the art of creativity
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Creativity
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. - Schopenhauer
Creativity is scarce because of censorship. Not in the usual sense of that word—the cops closing down a strip show, or some government official collecting and burning politically offensive books—but rather in the sense of “discouragement,” of telling those who have creative ideas that the ideas aren’t really interesting, that they aren’t sensible,... See more
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John Cleese: Wokeism Is the Enemy of Comedy—and Creativity
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The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to
For creative exploration, anecdotes are powerful, as they often represent outliers or anomalies in data which might be more indicative of new trends, attitudes, or areas of interest, than the averages derived from aggregated data.
-Rory Sutherland on the Rick Rubin podcast
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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I said earlier that if we want to encourage creativity, we should just get out of its way. That was an ambiguous statement and I’d like to clear up some of the ambiguity. I will insist that creativity is not rare at all, which becomes clear once we identify the obstacles, organizational and personal, that get in its way.
Is creativity really scarce?... See more
Is creativity really scarce?... See more
Everett Hughes • Articles
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