![]() ![]() One concept mentioned in the book that I hadn’t thought about was the idea that creative people can’t be creative all by themselves. Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention p. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon. Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context. Since the book was published in 1996 and most of the subjects of the study were already older people at that time, most of them are now dead – although a few have only died recently, and many were still working happily at the time they were interviewed for the book. Still others are famous scientists or inventors. Others have made a name for themselves in business or politics. Some are best-selling authors or influential artists. Some have received Nobel or other famous prizes for their work. The people studied were primarily people who have made a name for themselves in some field of endeavor. The purpose of this project was to find out what traits creative people have in common so that we can encourage these traits in more people. My Rating - (5 stars) Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and InventionĬreativity is the result of a research project undertaken by the author and his associates during the 1990s. ![]()
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