Creativity
the art of creativity
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Creativity
Highly creative people are usually absent-minded, as their brains spend most of the time connecting dots that seem to have no connection.
Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
youtube.com"To do the work, we need to rest, to read, to reconnect. It is the invisible labor that makes creative life possible."
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 believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever
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