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One constraint provides the first choruses that novices master and one which experts improvise. "First chorus" is a musical term for an initially played melody that provides the notes, chords, andkeys used in the variations or improvisations that follow. For example, Mozart used the traditional melody Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star as the
... See morePatricia D. Stokes PhD • Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough
The play-driven pleasures associated with exploratory body movements, rhythmic early speech (moving vocal cords), locomotor and rotational activity are done for their own sake; they are pleasurable and intrinsically playful. Yet they also help sculpt the brain.
Stuart Brown M.D., Christopher Vaughan • Play

Once you’re in the Maze, you’re damaging yourself.
Phil Stutz • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
psychiatrist Donald Winnicott came to clarify the aim of psychological healing as “bringing the patient from a state of not being able to play into a state of being able to play.... It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that t
... See moreStephen Nachmanovitch • Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
I would like you to develop basic gentleness and kindness in yourselves as artists and in your audience, whoever they may be.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
“hot spots” of talent around the globe. What seems like talent, it turns out, is often better practice habits in disguise.
Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi • Practice Perfect
The tool trains you to desire the pain you associate with a particular event—not the event itself.