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What Most of Us Get Wrong About Creativity

2020

Some thoughts about creativity.

09:43 min

On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J.

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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.

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250 Brief, Creative & Practical Art Therapy Techniques: A Guide for Clinicians and Clients

Creative, fun & fast therapeutic warm-ups! When a client walks into the therapy room they don't know what to expect-feeling anxious, unsure and perhaps fearful.

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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known.

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What I Learned About Creativity and Burnout from Interviewing 50 Artists

After nearly a year of dealing with this pandemic, I decided it was time to reach out to my community to discuss the challenges we were all facing. The biggest challenge being burnout.

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Why We May Be Measuring Burnout All Wrong

The pandemic has pushed many to the brink. But although we're exhausted and overwhelmed, some experts say we're not actually as burned out as we may think.

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Creative Burnout: When the Creativity Tap Runs Dry

Creativity is fragile: it needs to be fed enough inspiration, but not too much, for consuming an excessive amount of information may destroy its delicate balance. It needs space to grow, but should not be forced, for mechanical work may lead to lifeless output.

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How Googlers Avoid Burnout (and Secretly Boost Creativity)

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

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Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists

In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative...

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8 Signs You Have Creative Burnout—and It’s Affecting Your Mental Health

Creative burnout can happen to all of us, even those who consider themselves naturally creative people.

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Creative Well-Being