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"I can't help myself; I have to work on music and art," Jack White said. "I don't have any choice. I don't get up in the morning and pick and choose. It's natural, it's unstoppable. If I wander around the house, I will find myself in front of a piano." ~~ See video: Jack White affirms: “Inspiration and work ethic – they ride right next to each other." Persistence and Faith and Hard Work http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/07/persistence-and-faith-and-hard-work/
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"A portfolio is something that is very important for a designer or developer to get right – it’s amazing how many more clients will take an interest in you and your services when you have a good, populated and polished portfolio. Below is a list of 15 portfolios that are especially eye-catching and creative for your inspiration."
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Creative people often acknowledge that they respect and make use of their childhood interests, experiences and personalities. “I try to believe like I believed when I was five…when my heart told me everything I needed to know.” - Lucy Liu, Actor and Producer. Psychologist Teresa Amabile thinks “The kernel of creativity is there in the infant: the desire and drive to explore, to find out about things, to try things out, to experiment with different ways of handling things and looking at things.
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Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Students Do, says most learning approaches fall into three broad categories: the surface approach -- students interested primarily in surviving the course -- the strategic approach -- students driven by a desire to receive good grades and accolades -- and the deep approach. These deep learners use intrinsic motivators rather than extrinsic motivators, such as grades. “They found a passion within themselves rather than depending on someone else to motivate them,” he says.
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As Tchaikovsky and other artists point out, we can't be creatively productive waiting for the right mood or a flash of inspiration. “You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story.”Writer Anne Lamott continues, “You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. “But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.”
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“The reason why successful companies fail is they invest in things that provide the most immediate and tangible evidence of achievement. And the reason why they have such a short time horizon is that they’re run by people like you and I. As Keynes pointed out, “the strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes.”
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Psychopathology and creativity may be related, and the mythology of the mad artist is supported to some extent by research. But what is "madness"? Director Tim Burton has been called ‘crazy’ (at least in part for his appearance) or at least ‘eccentric’ – perhaps a polite cover label for ‘mad.’ He says: “If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing..." Cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. says, “I do believe that If the mental processes associated with psychosis were evaporated entirely from this world, art would suck."
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By Susan Biali, M.D. "Being sensitive, moody and strange may be signs you're a creative....According to Andreasen, our openness to new experiences, tolerance for ambiguity, and the way we approach life enables us to perceive things in a fresh and novel way. Less creative types “quickly respond to situations based on what they have been told by people in authority”, while creatives live in a more fluid and nebulous (read: incredibly stressful) world." ~~ Related: Depression and Creativity http://depressionandcreativity.org/
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The tortured artist myth is an enduring notion: that art comes from suffering. But a number of artists say that is a false and destructive idea. Musician Sting : “Do I have to be in pain to write? I thought so, as most of my contemporaries did; you had to be the struggling artist, the tortured, painful, poetic wreck. “I tried that for a while, and to a certain extent that was successful. “I was ‘The King of Pain’ after all. I only know that people who are getting into this archetype of the tortured poet end up really torturing themselves to death."
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• Milla Jovovich: "Inspire yourself" • Introverted leaders? • Zoe Kazan on 'Ruby Sparks' • Kenneth W. Christian, PhD on Adult Underachievement and more
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Zoe Kazan wrote and stars in her story of a blocked novelist who starts writing about a woman in his dreams, who then magically shows up in his real life...
Actor, playwright, and screenwriter Zoe Kazan says, “When there is a fecundity, when there’s a period of time when you are especially creative, you kind of owe it to yourself to kind of work overtime, and that is what I feel like has been happening to me. My brain has been going twice the speed that my body can go, so I’m trying to keep up.”
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By Think Jar Collective founder Ben Weinlick My first introduction to Feynman came some years ago when hearing that Feynman came up with his Nobel winning Physic’s insight through watching students throw and spin plates in the cafeteria of Cornell University. I thought it was so cool that a person could have an important insight from something as ordinary and mundane as happening to notice someone amuse themselves by throwing a plate up in the air in a school cafeteria. For me, gaining creative insights or ideas from unexpected places is what initially drew me to research creativity and eventually led to the creation of Think Jar Collective... - Serious Play: (Serious means the play is purposeful. This doesn’t mean boring playfulness; spontaneity is part of it. Serious play means you value play as a tool for fostering creative thinking. You have fun with it all; you explore and tease the old rules too. As you’ll soon see Feynman was a master of serious play) ~~ Related: Developing Creativity: Creating From Childhood - "Psychologist Teresa Amabile thinks “The kernel of creativity is there in the infant: the desire and drive to explore, to find out about things, to experiment with different ways of handling things and looking at things." http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2010/06/developing-creativity-creating-from-childhood/
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Developing Creativity newsletter: weekly excerpts of posts, plus articles, quotes, books, products and more on topics covered in the multiple Talent Development Resources series of sites : • Realizing potential talents more fully
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From one of the items: The site for the documentary "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" by director Alison Klayman describes him as "China's most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. A fellow artist says Ai "doesn't work within the system. He's just himself." Weiwei says, "If we don't push, nothing happens. Life is more interesting when you make a little effort."
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“The capricious and precarious nature of the mob sentiments was a nightmare, which I knew well. I empathize with the conflicting desire of the artist to retreat to his lonely tower and to be loved by people who appreciate his talent.” - Actress / Director / Producer / Writer Joan Chen
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"It is also about...finding the balance between the very cerebral part of your brain and the much more impulsive creativity that can come from chaos. So for me it is very much about that balance. The cerebral part of acting and the perfectionism can be exhausting, but the spontaneity can be very joyful." ~~ Related: Unconscious Creativity, Conscious Creating “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” Jean Cocteau http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/06/unconscious-creativity-conscious-creating/
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"The concept that reaching an insight is much like shining a light into a dark place goes back to at least Plato. It was this philosophical analogy that actually led social psychologist Michael Slepian at Tufts University to wonder if light bulbs might actually spur insights." ~~ But aspects of our environment impact people in various ways. Creativity and life coach Jenna Avery notes that for “Sensitive Souls, standard formulas don’t work well, like 40-plus-hour workweeks, commutes, fluorescent lights, and cubicles..." - From my post Self-care and Creative Achievement http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/06/self-care-and-creative-achievement/
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Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends. - By Maria Popova. “Find something more important than you are,” philosopher Dan Dennett once said in discussing the secret of happiness, “and dedicate your life to it.” But how, exactly, do we find that? Surely, it isn’t by luck. ~~ Related: Steve Jobs: Intensities and Overexcitabilities http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2011/10/steve-jobs-intensities-and-overexcitabilities/
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The tortured artist myth is an enduring notion: that art comes from suffering. But a number of artists say that is a false and destructive idea.
Colin Farrell: “I ascribed to the notion that to express yourself as an artist, you have to live in perpetual pain. And that’s nonsense.”
Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D., a psychologist specializing in creative artist issues, says “Many creative people carry the belief that their pain is the locus of their creativity, and worry that they will lose their creativity if they work through their inner conflicts or let go of suffering…”
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When it comes to understanding expertise and expert performance, psychologist Dr. Ericsson is perhaps the world’s leading authority. His research is the basis for the “10,000-hour rule” which suggests that it requires at least ten years and/or 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to achieve an expert level of performance in any given domain – and in the case of musicians, more like 15-25 years in order to attain an elite international level. Those are some pretty big numbers. So large, that at first I missed the most important factor in the equation. Deliberate practice. ~~ Related: Developing Creativity: Practice, Practice, Practice http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2011/08/practice-practice-practice/
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How to conjure up dreamlike imagery from your subconscious. By Michael Michalko. Surrealism is the stressing of subconscious or irrational significance of imagery, or in more simplistic terms, the use of dreamlike imagery. Dalí's absurd imagination has him painting pictures of figures no person would even dream of creating. How was Salvador Dali able to conjure up these extraordinary images from his subconscious that he used in his surrealistic paintings? ~~ Book: Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work, by Michael Michalko. http://vsb.li/Wb5XxV
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The Great DSM Hoax - How Mental Disorders are Created and Sold, by Eric R. Maisel, Ph.D. "The next version of the DSM, the DSM-V, is scheduled to appear in 2013. In that volume a slew of new “mental disorders,” created out of whole cloth for profit, will appear. Many people, including thousands of mental health professionals, have pushed back. But too few are willing to call the whole thing the hoax it is." ... [one example:] "Calling the sadness you feel because your parents are fighting or calling your entirely understandable boredom at school a 'mental disorder' is not just naming. The causes of your 'disorder' are being ascribed without anyone saying anything overt." Book: Rethinking Depression: How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal Meaning, by Eric Maisel, PhD. http://goo.gl/J77pc ~~ Two of many related posts : Are you Crazy or Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? http://highlysensitive.org/389/ Do We Need to be Crazy to be Creative? http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2010/06/do-we-need-to-be-crazy-to-be-creative/
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The tectonic upheavals our economy is enduring are the result not just of financial shenanigans by the global One Percent, but of a deeper and more fundamental shift -- the passing of the old industrial order as it gives way to the emerging Creative Economy...
Excerpted from The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition, by Richard Florida.
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Anxious individuals are less likely to take risks and are more sensitive to outcome than nonanxious individuals. ~~ Related:
Photo: “Every time I star in a film, I think I cannot act. I’ve tried to pull out of almost every one I’ve done because of sheer terror.” Nicole Kidman - from my post: Managing Creative Anxiety: Change Your Thinking
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What is art? What does art reveal about human nature? The trend these days is to approach such questions in the key of neuroscience. “Neuroaesthetics” is a term that has been coined to refer to the project of studying art using the methods of neuroscience. It would be fair to say that neuroaesthetics has become a hot field.
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