The Cost Of Creativity | Wired Science The best part of book tours are the questions. After spending years with the same ideas and sentences – they become old friends – it’s invigorating to see how people react, to keep track of which concepts spark their curiosity. It’s also fun to consider questions that never occured to me while writing the book. For instance, I was recently stumped by a seemingly obvious query that I hadn’t really considered. It was asked by a 4th grader: “What,” he wanted to know, “is the downside of creativity? Isn’t it possible that humans are too creative?” I muttered something incoherent about nuclear weapons and human ingenuity creating the seeds of its own destruction. One of the scientists I spend a lot of time with in Imagine is Geoffrey West, a brilliant theoretical physicist at the Sante Fe Insititute. West illustrates the problem by translating the modern human lifestyle – and we live surrounded by our own inventions – into watts. Needless to say, such revolutions aren’t fun.
Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative Resources for Developing Creativity and Innovation Links to a variety of sites with articles on creativity research by multiple authors, plus courses, programs & books for developing creativity and innovation. Sites / Blogs- – - - Creating in Flow – “Insights and advice about all forms of creative expression” – By Susan K. Perry, PhD, a social psychologist, writer, and writing consultant. Creativity at Work: Developing creativity and innovation in organizations Founder: Linda Naiman – a creativity and innovation consultant. And All That Jazz – “A creativity researcher’s take on the highs and lows of pop culture and the arts.” By James C. Cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. Articles on creativity (listed on his site) His blog on The Huffington Post His Psychology Today blog: Beautiful Minds Milena Z. Life as Art – “How our world shapes who we are and how who we are shapes our world” Mindbloggling – “Current ideas about cultural evolution and the creative processes that power it.” Psychology Today blog by Liane Gabora, Ph.D.
Steal Like An Artist, a book by Austin Kleon Download the cover, author photo, and flip through the book in the blogger kit. About the book ISBN: 9780761169253 | Foreign Translations | Ordering FAQ When I was asked to talk to students at a community college in upstate New York, I sat down and wrote a talk based on a list of 10 things I wished I’d heard when I was starting out: Steal like an artist.Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started.Write the book you want to read.Use your hands.Side projects and hobbies are important.The secret: do good work and share it with people.Geography is no longer our master.Be nice. The text and slides from the talk “rocked the creative world” (GalleyCat) and went viral. The book now has hundreds of thousands of copies in print and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Praise for the book Amazon.com Top Best-Selling Book of 2012 Brain Pickings Best Art Books of 2012 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction “Brilliant and real and true.” “Beautiful.” “Alarmingly cute.” “Amazing.”
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A Wandering Mind Is an Intelligent Mind What's the Latest Development? Resent research suggests that mind wandering is associated with good working memory, itself a measure of intelligence, reading comprehension and IQ score. The new study, published in Psychological Science, asked individuals to perform routine tasks and monitored how often their minds wandered. Later, scientists measured each person's working memory and found that people with better memories were also more likely to have a roaming mind. The results are the first indication that memory may enable off-topic thoughts. What's the Big Idea? Despite humans' proclivity for self-conscious and intentional behavior, scientists estimate that our minds wander about half the time, demonstrating the complex behavior and purpose of our brain. Photo credit: shutterstock.com
9 Ways to Support Your Child’s Creativity Kids are natural innovators with powerful imaginations. And creativity offers a bounty of intellectual, emotional and even health benefits. One study found that kids’ imaginations helped them cope better with pain. 1. But this doesn’t mean having a fancy playroom. 2. 3. 4. Again, this doesn’t mean costly or complicated trips. 5. 6. 7. Lanza and his wife don’t hover over their three boys as they play, and they also don’t enroll them in many activities. Kids learn a lot by playing on their own. He also mentioned Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby, which describes how babies’ brains work. 8. 9. Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. is an Associate Editor at Psych Central and blogs regularly about eating and self-image issues on her own blog, Weightless.
How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science I’ve always been fascinated by the failures of genius. Consider Bob Dylan. How did the same songwriter who produced Blood on the Tracks and Blonde on Blonde also conclude that Down in the Groove was worthy of release? Or what about Steve Jobs: What did he possibly see in the hockey puck mouse? How could Bono not realize that Spiderman was a disaster? The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity: Even those blessed with ridiculous talent still produce works of startling mediocrity. Nietzsche stressed this point. 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. Notice the emphasis on rejection. A new study led by Simone Ritter of the Radboud University in the Netherlands sheds some light on this mystery. Here’s where things get interesting. How can the rest of us get better at identifiying our best ideas? But waiting isn’t the only approach. P.S.
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