Philippa Perry is a British psychotherapist and writer. She is also the author of How To Stay Sane, a charming new book and a recent edition to The School of Life series, “a new enterprise offering good ideas for everyday life.” Although you’ll find Perry’s book in the self-help section some of what she writes about relates to… read more »
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On “Small C” Creativity: A Response
In 1993, Harvard professor Howard Gardner published the book Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity. Three years later, in 1996, the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi followed suit with Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (see my reading list on the left). Around the same time, research by the Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson… read more »
Correcting Creativity: The Struggle for Eminence
By the time he put the finishing touches on the Rite of Spring in November of 1912 in the Châtelard Hotel in Clarens, Switzerland, Stravinsky had spent three years studying Russian pagan rituals, Lithuanian folk songs and crafting the dissonant sacre chord, in which an F-flat major combines with an E-flat major with added minor seventh. The rehearsal process… read more »
Correcting Creativity: The Struggle for Eminence
By the time he put the finishing touches on the Rite of Spring in November of 1912 in the Châtelard Hotel in Clarens, Switzerland, Stravinsky had spent three years studying Russian pagan rituals, Lithuanian folk songs and crafting the dissonant sacre chord, in which an F-flat major combines with an E-flat major with added minor seventh. The rehearsal process… read more »
Why Traveling Abroad Makes Us More Creative
A few months ago I reported on a 2009 study out of the Kellogg School of Management by William Maddux and Adam Galinsky. Through a series of five studies Maddux and Galinsky found that students who traveled abroad scored higher on tests of creativity (for example, they solved Duncker’s candle problem more frequently). That is, walking the streets of Berlin,… read more »