Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
4.07
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author's objective is…
Want to Read $ 15.99"To achieve creativity in an existing domain, there must be surplus attention available."-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
"Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immersing oneself in the domain can one find out whether there is room left for contributing creatively to it, and whether one is capable of doing so."-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
"After curiosity, this quality of concentrated attention is what creative individuals mention most often as having set them apart in college from their peers. Without this quality, they could not have sustained the hard work, the ‘perspiration.’ Curiosity and drive are in many ways the yin and the yang that need to be combined in order to achieve something new."-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
"Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are."-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
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18. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
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Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
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