By Laura Barnett — 2012
Guy Garvey, Isaac Julien, Martha Wainwright and other artists give their top tips for unleashing your inner genius.
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How to deal with creative or mental blocks and be inspired.
Creativity has been valued throughout human history. It has also been called “the skill of the future” (Powers, 2018).
"The real problem, we finally realized, wasn’t the one we were trying to solve. It was that we were so focused on finding a solution that we never stopped to question whether we should even be doing the thing causing us problems in the first place."
Contrary to earlier theories that creative people emerged from conflicted families, Csikszentmihalyi’s findings, published as Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1996), showed that these individuals had, for the most part, experienced normal childhoods and grown up in...
When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams of reality.
Our imagination allows us to do more than just daydream. It sparks new ideas and helps us visualize ourselves achieving that next great goal in life.
I have discovered the best ideas come to me at the most random times: in the shower, brushing my teeth, walking in the woods and in the middle of the night.