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The Cure to a Creative Block is Making Something You’ll Never Show Anyone Else

By Herbert Lui — 2016

So making songs now that I know aren’t going to be heard by anybody else, it is an interesting thing. Because I think you have to do that now as an artist. I really do. —Donald Glover, Grantland interview

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The ‘Flow State’: Where Creative Work Thrives

Many of us know what it’s like to be in a state of creative flow. Do you have to wait for inspiration to strike, or can you hack ‘the zone’?

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Alice Robb
2019
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Are Self-Esteem and Creativity Connected?

You have what it takes to make art, if you make the choice to take what it takes. None of us knows whether our work will end up being great or not great, remembered or forgotten.

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Priscilla Long
2016
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The Flow (the Zone)— For Writers? What Is It? How Do I Get Into It?

The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.

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Elle Fredine
2018
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Creative People’s Brains Really Do Work Differently

Creative people are able to juggle seemingly contradictory modes of thought—cognitive and emotional, deliberate and spontaneous.

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Carolyn Gregoire
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7 Self-Improvement and Productivity Tips From Incredible Artists

Rather than looking to the usual sources for life hacks — you know, famous CEOs, world leaders, cult leaders — It’s time to look to a profession that often gets a tough rap (yet requires more grit and determination than most): Artists.

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D Emptyspace
2019
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7 Great Artist Duos that Shaped Art History

“I believe that collaboration is the solution and may bring us the harmony which would liberate art from its boundless confusion” - Jean Arp

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Alexxa Gotthardt
2016
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The Anxiety that Limits Your Creative Genius

Many professions require you to think flexibly and improvise all day long—but constant pressure to be inventive could be holding you back.

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David Robson
2021
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Enhancing Creativity at Work—It’s Not What You Think

Why is it that “ah ha” moments only seem to creep up on us when we aren’t looking for them? For many of us, this is a real challenge as finding creative solutions to today’s problems is so important not only in our work but in all aspects of our lives.

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Jacqueline Carter
2014
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Fostering Creativity: 12 Tips for Boosting Your Creative Skills

Creativity has been valued throughout human history. It has also been called “the skill of the future” (Powers, 2018).

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Jeffrey Gaines, PhD
2020
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Why Being Creative Is Good for You

What is the key to creativity, and how does it help our mental health? Beverley D’Silva speaks to Artist’s Way author Julia Cameron and others about ‘flow,’ fear and curiosity.

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Beverley D’Silva
2021
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