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Article by Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. Creative people think differently. But why? There is no magic bullet or single pill. We all have the potential for creativity, but there are so many different triggers that can broaden our minds, inspire, and motivate. Of course, there are just as many triggers that can shut down our minds. Since creativity is so important for individual well-being and societal innovation, it’s important that we systematically pull the right triggers. ~~~ More perspectives of Kaufman in my post: Scott Barry Kaufman on Kick-starting Your Creativity http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/03/scott-barry-kaufman-on-kick-starting-your-creativity/
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"I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame..." -- Lord Byron Depression usually yields nothing but suffering. The same is true of mania. However, often depression, especially in its phases of resolution, does contribute to a creative spurt, as the individual resolves, at least for the time being, the underlying emotional conflicts. // Related page of mine: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Depression-and-Creativity/399254776768105 ~~ Byron gives a vivid description of intellectual, imaginational, emotional overexcitabilites, or just excitabilites. One post on the topic: Excitabilities and Gifted People – an intro by Susan Daniels. http://highability.org/537/
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In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated. Related:
Susan Cain notes Bill Gates is an introvert, but not shy, and Barbra Streisand, who famously suffers from stage fright, is a shy extrovert. Cain notes, “Shyness and introversion are not the same thing. Shyness is the fear of negative judgment, and introversion is a preference for quiet, minimally stimulating environments. - From my post Creative Introverts
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2011/07/creative-introverts/ In her NYTimes article, Cain writes, "Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place…But there’s a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption." -From my post Developing Creativity in Solitude
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/01/developing-creativity-in-solitude/
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Blog post at The Creativity Ninja : Written by Ali Luke
Any idiot can write a bestseller. It’s more of a challenge, surely, to write a unique, obscure, novel that no-one ever reads. Maybe a century or two after your (artistically tragic) death, someone will discover it and realize your true genius.
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As a child, you were gifted with imagination and creativity. Now grown up, you base your judgment on your knowledge and experience. How to think like a child? "We have been constructed by schools and parents in such a way that for all problems we have a formula we can apply. This is what society provides us with in order to be efficient and independent. Nine times out of ten, this is what gets us out of complicated situations. But once in a while,if you could think differently, you might find some other solutions, easier and more effective." ~~~ Related: Overthinking, Worry and Creative Problem-solving http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/04/overthinking-worry-and-creative-problem-solving/
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Creativity and Intelligence as opponent processes. By Sandeep Gautam... Creativity and Intelligence are related, but also opposed to each other in a certain way. Traditional analysis of relations between intelligence and creativity have focussed on whether one is a subset of the other; whether they are correlated and found significantly more often together than by themselves; and whether one (high IQ) is a necessary condition or prerequisite for the other (creativity) - the threshold theory of creativity. ~~~ Related: More Intelligence, More Creative? http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/01/more-intelligence-more-creative/
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Noomi Rapace is the star of the new Ridley Scott film "Prometheus." Casting her as the lead character Elizabeth Shaw... Rapace said that to make the character of Shaw believable, she felt the need to reconnect to her spiritual upbringing in Iceland, to a time when her belief system felt more certain. “I felt I had to face myself and find her in me,” Rapace said. “There’s a line in the movie, ‘That’s what I choose to believe,’ and I think that’s a key sentence in her life. She lost her dad when she was 9, her mother when she was a baby, and she’s been on her own. It’s like you have a choice: to either be destructive or to say everything happens for a reason and I just have to find the reason. She is driven by passion and an almost naive obsession to find out who made us.” ~~~~ See many more actor quotes and resources on The Inner Actor http://theinneractor.com
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The Innovator's DNA book includes skills you can make use of being a disruptive innovator as an individual creator, as well as a business leader. One of the skills: "Associating refers to your ability to make connections across seemingly unrelated questions, problems, fields of study, or ideas. Associational thinkers draw on knowledge acquired through questioning, observing, experimenting and networking to link together unexpected combinations of problems, ideas and observations to produce new business ideas."
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“Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences.”
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Anxiety and the Amygdala The amygdala in the brain's limbic system has a role is in the processing of emotional reactions like anxiety or 'flight or fight' responses. Dealing with anxiety will help you express your creative talents more fully.
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Recent research solves longstanding madness/genius paradox By Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.... "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad." — Salvador Dali Must one risk getting lost in the sea of madness in order to reach the lone island of genius? While not necessarily mad, creative minds are often chaotic, untethered and unhinged. These thought processes enable a creative person to bring together lots of seemingly disparate streams of information in a unique way not immediately obvious to those grounded in "reality." Which creates an interesting paradox: How can creative geniuses simultaneously be mad and brilliant? ~~~ Related: Do We Need to be Crazy to be Creative? By Douglas Eby http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2010/06/do-we-need-to-be-crazy-to-be-creative/
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Does creative inspiration come from our own teeming neurons, or is it a gift of a Muse? A passion to create may feel like something from beyond us, or from a spirit being, but maybe that is what anything from the not quite known inner depths of our psyche feels like.
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Even people with exceptional talents can feel insecure, and many creative people struggle with doubt versus confidence in themselves or their abilities. “I really have that worry that I’ll wake up in the morning and think, ‘Oh God. I’m such a fraud, and they’ll find me out.’ I doubt myself a lot.” Those are comments by one of my favorite actors, Emily Blunt, who interestingly continued, “And maybe that’s a good thing..."
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"When I am asked ... for advice on how to get started as a nonfiction writer, I tell them to start small and look around." ... "The overwhelming majority of a writer's time is spent wondering why this world is not as vivid as he or she once — agonizingly, deludedly — believed. To write is to fail, more or less, constantly." Tom Bissell, in his book Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation. http://vsb.li/hfgjdl
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Kristin Bauer portrays the deliciously imperious vampire Pam on the HBO series “True Blood.” But in addition to acting, she has been drawing since around age twelve. She notes on her site, “I have kept it up out of pleasure and also a needed sanctuary from the harder parts of life.” Creative expression as a refuge, even a force for healing, is a motivation for many creative people. Creating can be rejuvenating for Bauer and other artists - and for anyone - also because it can be a means to explore and release deeper levels of ourselves.
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'And now that she's got her own measure of fame, Tina Fey says she's more and more conscious of what messages her daughters...are getting about being famous and making their own way. "There's this Nickelodeon show where the boy band sings, 'I wanna be famous!' Well, why? Everyone just wants to be famous. The idea [to get across is] that being famous in itself is not to be valued; that's not important," she says.' 'If they wanted to become actors, says Fey, "I'd try and spare them from the life of an actor, where you only get work if someone picks you. You want to be someone who makes your own stuff. If you make your own thing, you can be doing it at a community theater or on Broadway. No one can really stop you. It's a better, more cool life." /// Related: Actor’s Privacy and The Dark Side of Fame http://theinneractor.com/33/the-dark-side-of-fame/
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In his article The Creative Personality: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality (from his book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD writes that “Creative people combine playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility” and that “Creative people tend to be smart yet naive at the same time.” He says that “a core of general intelligence is high among people who make important creative contributions,” but according to the studies of Lewis Terman, “after a certain point IQ does not seem to be correlated with superior performance in real life” – including level of creativity.
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David Lynch on being a creative polymath: "I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema...Then cinema led to so many different areas—it led to still photography, music . . . Furniture is also a big love of mine. I started building these kind of sculptural lamps. Then I got into lithography...And I’ve always been painting along the way, as well as doing drawings and watercolors . . . There are just so many things out there for us to do." [From Interview magazine.] // From my post "An Intense Inner Pressure to Create"
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/02/an-intense-inner-pressure-to-create/
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Book: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity - by David Lynch.
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16 different ways to spark more creative and innovative thinking in your organization. Simply put, the key to increasing creativity in any organization is to make it start acting like a creative organization. Suppose you wanted to be an artist: You would begin behaving like an artist by painting every day. You may not become another Vincent Van Gogh, but you'll become much more of an artist than someone who has never tried. Similarly, you and your organization will become more creative if you start acting the part. The following are 16 suggestions to encourage you and your colleagues to start becoming more creative today. Book: Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work, by Michael Michalko.
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Jon Hamm (TV series 'Mad Men') talks about his life following the death of his father when he was 20, including his recovery from depression. Hamm said, ‘I very much knew what the idea of permanence was by that point. I dropped out of school, moved into the basement of my older half-sister Julie’s house, enrolled in a local college and sank into depression. ~~~ Related site: Depression and Creativity
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Depression-and-Creativity/399254776768105
Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses.
"How do creative geniuses generate so many alternatives and conjectures? Why are so many of their ideas so rich and varied? How do they produce the "blind" variations that lead to the original and novel? A growing cadre of scholars are offering evidence that one can characterize the way geniuses think. By studying the notebooks, correspondence, conversations and ideas of the world's greatest thinkers, they have teased out particular common thinking strategies and styles of thought that enabled geniuses to generate a prodigious variety of novel and original ideas."
Read more: http://www.creativitypost.com/create/how_geniuses_think
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Many multitalented people feel inspired to pursue multiple projects, often at the same time. One potential downside is physical and emotional burnout. Jennifer Westfeldt wrote, produced and acted in her movie “Friends With Kids”...she also directed the “two-year, round-the-clock endeavor” - “I must have been crazy to have donned so many hats,” Westfeldt said. “It made good sense for me to direct it, since I was involved in every aspect anyway. But I’m not sure I’d ever do it again.”
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Nope, even Michelangelo embraced constraints. But don't take it too far; process shouldn't be perfect. Here's why. In the May issue of Inc., a reader, Elaine Ellis, poses a great question: Is creativity stifled by organization or is it easier to be creative at a company that is extremely well run?" The way she phrases the question to some degree defines the answer. Of course it is easier to be creative in a "well run" company because it is easier to get things done and to experiment. Truly creative people don't baulk at every restraint; the best people I've ever worked with understood the necessity and found structure provoked them to do richer and more daring work.
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Brain-calming Vs. Brainstorming By Think Jar Collective member Colin Funk In the early nineties a wide variety of arts-based approaches to creative problem solving and idea generation surfaced. One of the most popular forms that emerged was that of Improv Theatre. ... As leaders from all sectors today find themselves in uncharted waters, the demand for not only quantity, but quality of ideas is paramount. Just as potent as the many powerful techniques from the world of Improv Theatre, comes a more appropriate practice and inquiry tool for these times – Brain-calming. ... Brain-calming techniques are on the rise and can be seen routinely in many private and public organizations as meditation, learning partner walks, slow food dinners, conversation cafes, and journaling.
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Dealing with Your "Inner Critic" Self-criticism is a two-edged sword. By Dennis Palumbo... 'Among the majority of my creative patients — TV and film writers, directors, actors, etc., a primary concern is the struggle against their “inner critic.” By that I mean the persistent, sometimes harsh and almost always shaming “voice” that belittles or invalidates their work.' ... One of my related posts: Toxic Criticism and Developing Creativity By Douglas Eby http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2011/01/toxic-criticism-and-developing-creativity/
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