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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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You have to “turn it off” to “turn it on” when it matters most.

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Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness
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Aesthetically Appealing Art Increases Creative Inspiration

Viewing art you find aesthetically pleasing can help boost your personal creativity, researchers report. (Source: Max Planck Institute)

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18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently

it's not just a stereotype of the "tortured artist" -- artists really may be more complicated people. Research has suggested that creativity involves the coming together of a multitude of traits, behaviors and social influences in a single person.

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Carolyn Gregoire
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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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Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform

Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the “door close” button on the elevator aren’t crazy—just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls attention deficit trait, or ADT.

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Edward Hallowell
2005
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How Our Brains Can Find Peace in a Crisis

Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.

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Jill Suttie
2020
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The Four Keys to Well-Being

Dr. Richard Davidson explains that well-being is a skill that can be practiced and strengthened.

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Richard Davidson
2016
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