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1967

Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.

155 min

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Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

We’ve all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr.

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Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan
2010
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06:46

Black Creativity 2021 Innovators: Meet Taylor Staten and Tonika Johnson

Two of our Black Creativity 2021 Innovators meet to talk about their takes on creativity and collaboration. Photojournalist Tonika Johnson created the Folded Map Project to explore narratives around Chicago’s South Side.

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2021
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26:43

Stuart Brown: Play Is More than Fun

A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults—and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

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2009
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How Does Creativity Help Solve Problems?

At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of people who work in media, design, and the arts about how the creative process can lend itself to unlocking solutions. "Creativity is a problem-solving practice," says Anne Libera, director of comedy studies at Second City.

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2015
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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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Creativity

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...

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Barbara Kerr
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The Art of Creativity

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.

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Daniel Goleman, Paul Kaufman, Michael Ray
1992
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Here’s How Imagination Works

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.

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Mental Floss Content Team
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Imagination and Creativity