creativity
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Take an #Artbreak
Busy week? Work stressing you out? Take five minutes out of your day for an #artbreak—a short burst of creativity to free up your mind. And if you like what you come up with, go ahead and share it on…
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The Science of Creativity
For the Atlantic, Cody C. Delistrarty ponders whether a person can learn to be creative, or if he or she is simply born with the trait. Framing his essay on Mary Shelley and her writing process for Frankenstein, Delistrarty presents several…
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Racists Are Less Creative
Comparing cognitive tests like the Duncker Candle Problem against views of racial essentialism reveals that racists lack certain problem solving skills, reports Hazlitt: Creativity is fundamentally the ability to recombine old ideas, moving beyond preexisting categories in order to create…
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Is Your City Killing Your Creativity?
Expensive cities are killing our creativity, argues Sarah Kendzior in an article for Al Jazeera. Not only is it very difficult for artists to make a basic living in artistic hubs such as New York, but some are pretty much…
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Creativity Uninhibited in the Dark
“Great artists and original thinkers often seem instinctually drawn to the darker hours,” writes Eric Jaffe in his article “Why Creativity Thrives in the Dark.” A recent study conducted by Anna Steidel and Lioba Werth shows that there’s a reason…
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Creative Contradictions
“My thoughts make cohesive sense to me, yet others sometimes feel that I am contradicting myself or switching positions. What is wrong with me?” On his website, Matthew Schuler writes about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book where he describes nine contradictory characteristics…
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The Rumpus Interview with Missy Mazzoli
We talked to composer-performer Missy Mazzoli about the sometimes invisible world of new classical music, her relation to it, and what she’s doing to help to redefine what it means to be a composer in the 21st century.
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The Freestyle Cortex
A sudden burst of improvisational creativity may feel almost supernatural in origin, but there’s a biological basis for it, say researchers. How did they study it? By scanning the brains of freestyling rappers, of course. They found that rapping memorized…
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Going Back to Bed
“Someday they’ll say Bukowski knew. Lay down for three of four days to get your juices back—then get up, look around and do it… But who the hell can do it ‘cause you need a dollar.” Open Culture shares a…
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Depressed Creativity? Sort Of.
When Martin Heidegger wrote his gargantuan Magnus opus, Being and Time, he posited that it was Angst, the fundamental human condition, that brought us into the most authentic relationship with our selves and our surroundings. Angst, for Heidegger, is caused…
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The Cost of a Thing
A couple months ago, we wrote about Matthew Crawford’s book Shop Class as Soulcraft, and around the same time I read another interesting review of the book, by Caleb Crain. (I refrained from posting about it at the time to…
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This Suit Gets It
“We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare. Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the capability to recover when failures occur. It must be safe to tell the truth. We…