Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Interviews with ninety-one creative people (Nobel laureates, artists, inventors) and the systems model: creativity needs a domain, a field and a person, and the creative personality is complex, holding opposites. Rich and humane.
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- Creativity is domain plus field plus person.
- Creative people hold opposites.
- Flow is where the work gets done.
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Creative lives, researched.
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