8 Bad Habits That Destroy Your Creativity. Study Says Making Art Reduces Stress, Even If You Kind Of Suck At It. Flow Brainwaves Spike Between Daydreaming and Dreaming Dreaming. Flow.
It’s a brain state that fascinates scientists because it appears to be the well from which creativity flows. It was first identified by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi his 1988 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Psychology Today describes it this way: Action and awareness merge. Our sense of self and our sense of self consciousness completely disappear. Julia Cameron on Creativity: There's No Age Limit - Motto. Ours is a youth-oriented culture.
A glance at the tabloids tells us of the exploits of the young. There is not as much of a platform for the artistic achievements and accomplishments of the older or even the middle aged. We falsely believe that creativity belongs to the young, and so, when we pass a certain age, we tell ourselves we are “over the hill.” We ignore the fact that many artists create well into what might be called their “dotage.” The idea that creativity fades with age is false. 50 ways to take care of yourself in the arts. Image: pixabay.com As a sector, the arts is on the verge of burnout if not already teetering far beyond its edge.
Lack of support, the precarious nature of freelance and contract work, the emotional and physical toll of creative and community arts work, frequent requests to work for free, and the undervaluing of work in Australia is confounding. Yet there is a silver lining in that these issues are finally being broached. At the Making Time: Arts and Self-Care conference held by Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC) last week, the discussion was stripped bare of the appearances we are often greeted with at exhibition openings, or daily dealings with colleagues and friends.
Delegates shared candid accounts of dealings with trauma, mental health difficulties and illuminated the dark corners of community arts work. Community arts workers in particular are often exposed to difficult or traumatic situations through working with those that have experienced hardship. I Heart Intelligence 10 Things to keep in Mind When Loving a Highly Creative Person.
It has been proven that highly creative people’s brains work quite differently than other brains.
That special brain wiring that can create such wonderful art, music, and writing can often lead to strain in a relationship, because of those differences. If you’ve ever loved a highly creative person, you know that it can seem like they live in their own little word at times, and that thought isn’t far from the truth. The upside of insomnia: how sleep deprivation aids creativity. Last year, the musician and actor Matt Berry found he couldn't get to sleep.
He had experienced insomnia before, but this time was the worst yet. It started, as usual, with anxiety about getting enough rest before an important appointment. Deadly conformity is killing our creativity. Let's mess about more. I began to notice the creativity of the manager of the Pret a Manger coffee shop, close to where I live, after he showed extraordinary kindness to a woman with Down's syndrome in her 20s.
Well, maybe it wasn't that remarkable, but it was certainly natural and spontaneous and beautifully done. Having been asked by her carer, the woman cleared their tray and tipped the rubbish into the bin. Then she spotted a chocolate energy bar and gave a pleading look to her carer, who shook her head gravely – probably the right decision because she was a little overweight. Next on her wish list was some attention from the manager, who stepped from behind the counter and gave her a big, affectionate hug. Messy Desks Encourage Creative Thinking - Mindful Living. We’ve been trained to believe that a de-cluttered desk and office are the quickest routes to becoming better thinkers and more efficient workers.
And while that may provide the ideal environment for getting work done, it may not be the best environment for coming up with new ideas, so says Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. As Lea Winerman reports in Monitor on Psychology (Oct. 2013), Vohs and her team conducted three experiments involving a tidy workspace and messy workspace, and asked participants to complete a variety of tasks and make decisions in those rooms. When asked if they were interested in donating money to charity, those tested in the tidy workspace proved to be much more charitable (81 percent) than those in the messy workspace (47 percent). The tidy room participants also made healthier decisions (67 percent chose an apple over chocolate) compared to the messy-room participants (only 20 percent chose the apple).
The complete guide to listening to music at work - Quartz. If you’re reading this article at work, there’s a decent chance you’re wearing headphones.
It has never been easier to tune in to your own customized soundtrack—or more necessary to tune out your open-office coworkers, cubicle mates, and fellow coffee-shop denizens. But not all music is created equal, especially when there’s work to be done. How should you choose the best office soundtrack for a given task? 5 Psychological Traits of Creative People - Gregory Ciotti - Quora. Since creativity seems to thrive with individuals and sometimes collaboration rather than group work, what sort of traits are often found in especially creative people?
5 False Beliefs that Are Holding You Back. Email by Benny Hsu Over the years you’ve created a set of beliefs in your mind that you hold to be true.
36 Surprising Ways to Boost Creativity For Free. Literary Review - Christopher Hart on the daily rituals of great minds. How to Have Great Ideas More Often, According to Science. Time Your Power Nap Naturally with Einstein and Dali's Key Method. How to Have Great Ideas More Often, According to Science. 33 ways to stay creative. Living Out Loud - Kick-start your creativity. Why You Should have a Messy Desk — Busy Building Things. Einstein: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Mark Twain. What is one thing these three visionaries have in common? Is Music the Key to Success? The way to get over creative block is to simply. Coffitivity - Increase Your Creativity! How the Hum of a Coffee Shop Can Boost Creativity. Alan Watts - Creativity. Creativity Portal® Home / Explore & Express Your Creativity! / Creativity-Portal.com. The Vital Link Between Emotions and Creativity in Photography.
Health - Hans Villarica - Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity. Jonah Lehrer on How Creativity Works. By Maria Popova Inside the ‘seething cauldron of ideas,’ or what Bob Dylan has to do with the value of the synthesizer mind. In his 1878 book, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Nietzsche observed: Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration… shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects… All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.”
Why Boredom Is Good for Your Creativity. Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity. David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence. John Cleese on Creativity. ‘Imagine - How Creativity Works,’ by Jonah Lehrer. Austin Kleon on Cultivating Creativity in the Digital Age.
By Maria Popova. You Are A Mashup Of What You Let Into Your Life. 29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE. About.