Creativity
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Based on interviews with ninety-one exceptional creators, Nobel laureates, artists, inventors, the book describes the creative personality (complexity, paradox), the creative process, the systems model (domain, field, person) and how creativity changes with age, ending with advice for enhancing personal creativity.
Read it if…
you want the research on how creative people actually live and work.
Skip it if…
you want a quick technique book; this is study.
Three things you will actually use
- Creative people hold opposites: discipline and play, extroversion and introversion.
- Creativity needs a domain mastered and a field that accepts.
- Schedule time for both focus and idleness.
Do this first
Read the final chapter and try one of the daily practices: curiosity, surprise, waking with a goal.
Our verdict
Substantial and humane.
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