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Finding the Joy to Fuel Creativity

From www.creativitypost.com - Today, 8:56 AM

By Kristen Fischer. "Find something that inspires or motivates you and use it to fuel your creativity and boost your joy. Look for the little things and see how big they can become!"

“ “My Adderall helps me think so much clearer.” [From an ADD forum.]”

Steven Zeitchik says in his article about the movie “Limitless” that “down-onhis-luck New York writer Eddie (Bradley Cooper) ”takes a magic potion – a “miracle street narcotic in the form of a translucent pill, NZT that enhances mental performance beyond any reasonable expectation. (Yes, it’s fictional.)”

Douglas Eby's insight: Book: When Talent Isn't Enough: Business Basics for the Creatively Inclined: For Creative Professionals, Including... Artists, Writers, De‐ signers, Bloggers, ... to Freelance or Run Their Own Business Paper‐ back by Kristen Fischer. http://buff.ly/14NJQj1 Recommend

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The Artist’s Unconscious | TalentDevelop

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“ By Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, specializing in creative artist issues, trauma re‐ covery, and fertility.”

Patti Smith and her ongoing journey as an artist

"I am continually amazed at the work of the unconscious in the minds of creative artists. The capacity to hold many details in the conscious, wakeful mind may seem

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In the preface to a photography book, singer–songwriter, poet and visual artist Patti Smith describes the experience of many creators. “The artist, in turn, sacrifices his leisure, the pleasure of being vague, of drifting half-present or merging un‐ consciously with the terrain. For the artist is driven, is one apart, es‐ tranged from all save his one eye."

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Why Creativity Now? A Conversation with Sir Ken Robinson

From www.ascd.org - August 12, 1:44 PM

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One of the many stimulating comments by Ken Robin‐ son: "The third misconception is that creativity is just about letting yourself go, kind of running around the room and going a bit crazy. Really, creativity is a disci‐ plined process that requires skill, knowledge, and con‐ trol. Obviously, it also requires imagination and inspira‐ tion."

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Marchesa Designer Georgina Chapman on Her Directing Debut and Getting Advice From Ron Howard

From www.hollywoodreporter.com August 13, 1:19 PM

“ "I'm extremely excited and extreme‐ ly nervous," says the designer, one of five celebrities taking part in Canon's "Project Imaginat10n," of helming a love story/fantasy inspired by 10 user-generated photographs.”

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Douglas Eby's insight: In one of my related posts: "Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?" - I include quotes of his, such as: "We are educating peo‐ ple out of their creativity. By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity to take a chance. They have become fright‐ ened of being wrong." http://talentdevelop.com/69/sir-ken-robinsondo-schools-kill-creativity/ 0

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made me more creative." | TalentDevelop

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“ Many people face challenges in their lives they not only overcome, but are able to use for enhancing their creative work.”

From developingcreativity.org - August 3, 4:00 PM

Topics include: Self-esteem and personal develop‐ ment; Eric Maisel course “Your Life in the Arts”; Imagination and Grounded Reality and much more

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Douglas Eby's curator insight, August 12, 1:42 PM In one of my related posts: "Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?" - I include quotes of his, such as: "We are educating people out of their creativity. By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity to take a chance. They have become frightened of being wrong." http://talentdevelop.com/69/sir-ken-robinsondo-schools-kill-creativity/

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J.K. Rowling on creative imagination | TalentDevelop

From talentdevelop.com - July 29, 9:57 PM

J.K. Rowling spoke in her Harvard Commencement Address about the

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Emma Thompson: “I’m very lucky I write... - Developing Multiple Talents

Commencement Address about the power of our imagination for creativity and innovation, and understanding other people.

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From www.facebook.com - July 29, 11:46 AM

Emma Thompson: “I’m very lucky I write as well. I don’t see how I could be as effective a mother as I’d like to be if I had to go away and act all the time."

One of psychologist C.G. Jung‘s con‐ cepts is “active imagination.” Jungian analyst John Beebe comments about it being “a kind of dialogue between conscious and unconscious.” Creative and highly talented people often have imaginational intensity – an ability tapped into by Rowling and so many other artists. Recommend

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Psychology of Creativity: Performers and Excitabilities |TalentDevelop

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Shelley Carson on developing creativity | TalentDevelop

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From talentdevelop.com - July 28, 6:05 PM

Shelley Carson, Ph.D. of Harvard University teaches and conducts research on creativity, psychopathology, and resilience. Topics in our audio podcast interview related to the creative mind and developing creativity include some of Dr. Carson’s seven brain activation patterns she discusses in her new book Your Creative Brain. [Also see links to video and posts with more quotes.]

“I’m an only child and I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous… I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.” Actor Clea DuVall

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Creative performers have three seem‐ ing contradictions - energy/rest, ex‐ troversion/introversion, and open‐ ness/sensitivity, along with other key traits, notes cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman.

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40 Inspiring Workspaces Of The Famously Creative

From www.buzzfeed.com - July 27, 1:35 PM

“ From tiny writing desks to giant painting studios, the only thing all of these creative studios have in com‐ mon is that they inspired their suc‐ cessful inhabitants to create great‐ ness.”

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Myths of Creativity and Creators | TalentDevelop

From talentdevelop.com - July 23, 4:28 PM

“ “I just thought making movies was something done by geniuses, and I was very clear that I wasn’t one of those.” Jane Campion”

Douglas Eby's insight: J. K. Rowling wrote much of the first "Harry Potter" in coffee shops. George Orwell chose to write Nineteen Eighty-Four while living in

When “The Artist’s Way” author and creativity coach Julia Cameron has asked people to list ten traits they think artists have, their responses have included: “Artists are broke,” “Artists are crazy,” “Artists are drugaddicted” and “Artists are drunk.” Other myths and ideas about being an artist:

Barnhill (1946-1949), an abandoned farmhouse on the isle of Jura in the Inner Hebrides. - From Solitude is not pathology for the high sen‐ sitivity personality http://talentdevelop.com/3558/

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Carol Sanford's curator insight, July 28, 8:32 AM As you scroll through, you cannot help but notice how many look out ont nature. Since I now look at the Olumpic Mountains and the Puget Sounds from my win‐ dows, I know why. Nature, even looking at her and lsitening to the birds cry, small the freshness, I am restoried, inspired and guided in what matters most. There were very few workspaces which were shown cluttered. Fung Shui says that a cluttered room leads to cluttered mind. It does for me I know. These creative peo‐ ple have sparse or orderedly work spaces. How beautiful to reflect on why my workspace is so inspiring to me. Have you found yours?

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7 Ways To Boost Your Creativity

From www.fastcocreate.com - July 22, 10:54 AM

Sarah McElrath's curator insight, July 28, 5:38 PM Interesting to see the variety.

“ Who better to go to for career ad‐ vice than Sir John Hegarty, the cofounder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and one of the world’s most awarded cre‐ atives?”

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One way to turn a 10-year career, into 20 or even 50 years, according to Hegarty, is to stay connected. “You have to stay riveted to what is going on around you,“ he says. “And stay positive. Cynicism is the death of creativity.”

Why we need eccentricity

From www.guardian.co.uk - July 23, 11:22 AM

“ Martin Howard: It's not just the pre‐ serve of Albert Einstein and Prince – eccentric behaviour benefits society and helps us live longer” "Eccentricity. We all know it when we see it. Chances are high some of you reading this are eccentric, and we British are quietly proud to lead the world in producing Grade-A loons. National icon Oscar Wilde, for example, used to take a lobster on a lead for walks." Douglas Eby's insight: “I hope I’m becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.” Musi‐ cian Tom Waits / Being eccentric can help our creative thinking and courage. As psychologist Robert Ornstein has noted, “If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.” - From post: Being eccentric and creative http://developingmultipletalents.com/101/being-eccen‐ tric-and-creative/ Comment

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Cognitive Filtering, Meditation, Creativity From blogs.psychcentral.com - July 21, 12:39 PM

Reduced latent inhibition in the brain allows us to treat something as novel, no matter how may times we've seen it - something that experienced meditators seem to do - which may enhance creativity. In his post Why Daydreamers Are More Creative, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD covers a number of fascinating topics relating to the cre‐ ative mind, including Latent inhibition.

The Asymptotic Leap's curator insight, July 24, 7:01 AM A critical ingredient of human evolution? Sign up to comment

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The genius brain: Savants and hidden potential

From highability.org - July 21, 12:59 PM

In his article Is There A Little Rain Man In Each Of Us?, Darold Treffert, MD asks if it is possible “to tap and use those still existent, but less fre‐ quently used, capacities and circuits, with some of their savant-like charac‐ teristics, in those of us more wedded to left brain capacity and higher level memory?”

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Carol Sanford's curator insight, July 22, 8:57 AM Learning a living mediation is a way to do this- so it is happening during interac‐ tions, not just sitting time. We introduce Living Systems frameworks that enable people to treat something as novel. It is because it reduces the reactivity people

people to treat something as novel. It is because it reduces the reactivity people normally feel and competititiveness that causing rejection of the "new". Certainly all of this is needed for creativity, which is in short supply when Responsible Entrepre‐ neurs are trying to grow a business. They far too often fall back on tried and "true", or worse, what is familar.

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Viggo Mortensen on The Social Power of Art and Staying Childlike To Be Creative

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Your Ego and the Cosmic Perspective

From blogs.psychcentral.com - July 19, 10:18 AM

Like children, many creators have multiple creative interests, and may keep a childlike mindset to become multitalented artists.

From www.brainpickings.org - July 20, 8:00 PM

"All you can do is sit back and bask in your relevance to the cosmos."

“The function of artists is to keep people childlike in a positive way. To keep open to the world.” Viggo Mortensen continues, “Apart from traveling to different countries, to different communities, to different parts of your city, I think that art is one of the greatest anti-war and antipoverty weapons.”

"There is hardly a greater cosmic sage of our age than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. In this sublime, characteristically eloquent short clip from BigThink, he echoes Ptolemy’s awe as he teases apart the misguided tension between our human ego and the immensity of the universe..." Douglas Eby's insight: Article: Ego and Creativity by Douglas Eby Responding to a magazine question: "What kills creativity?" - actress Gillian Anderson replied succinctly, "Ego." ... Creativity teacher and writer Julia Cameron has commented, "We tend to think, or at least fear, that creative dreams are egotistical... This thinking must be un‐ done." http://talentdevelop.com/articles/Page132.html

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ARTST TLK video interview with Henry Rollins

From www.facebook.com - July 18, 9:18 AM

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Thanks to ARTST TLK for a great in‐ terview with Henry Rollins on being a creator who "wants to start conversa‐ tions" - one of his quotes I really like:...

Multitalented Creative People | Developing Multiple Talents

Douglas Eby's insight: Henry Rollins comments about being a performer and staying healthy while doing road tours with his Rollins Band - see post: Taking Care of Your Creative Self http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creativemind/2010/12/taking-care-of-your-creative-self/ Recommend

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From developingmultipletalents.com - July 18, 9:46 AM

Many accomplished people are multitalented and active, even exceptional, in

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Many accomplished people are multitalented and active, even exceptional, in more than one area of creative expression. David Lynch has commented about being a creative polymath: “I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema…still photography, music… There are just so many things out there for us to do.” Recommend

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Brigitte Roujol's curator insight, July 19, 2:56 AM David Lynch résume bien la situation. Ce vaste monde est comme un jardin de cocagne pour ceux qui sont curieux, avides d'aprendre de nouvelles de choses, de faire, de créer, de tester.. David Lynch est un "scanner' comme les appellent Barbara Sher qui a été la pre‐ mière à écrire sur la gestion du temps spécifique pour ce type de personnalités, qui donnent aux autres l'impression de se disperser et de ne pas savoir ce qu'ils veu‐ lent, d'être instables...

Addiction and Creative People | Developing Multiple Talents From developingmultipletalents.com - July 17, 9:00 AM

This is not just about drug use and abuse – there are many forms of self-limit‐ ing addictive behavior that can interfere with realizing our creative and other talents. But substance use is one area to start with. Beethoven reportedly drank wine about as often as he wrote music, and was an alcoholic or at least a problem-drinker.

>>A lire " Refuse to choose", de Barbara Sher Personnellement, étant une "scanner" aussi, j'ai résolu ma problématique en étant pluri-activités : activité opérationnelle en entreprise, activité de consulting pour mul‐ tiplier les secteurs et les sujets abordés et activité artistique. Sign up to comment

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The Digital Rocking Chair's curator insight, July 17, 11:25 PM Michelle Lhooq: 'The increased predominance of mobile devices—not to

mention our clingy dependence on them—has sparked a boom of ambitious apps for phones and tablets that are case studies for storytelling in the “digi‐ tal age.”' Digital Cinema in Transition's curator insight, July 18, 9:09 AM Help us to better understand digital cinema in transition. Fill out one of our surveys at http://www.digitalcinema.ca ! Sign up to comment

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Why Ditching The Office Could Help You Be More Creative

From www.fastcoexist.com - July 15, 10:40 AM

“ Researchers have shown that a flexible schedule helps employees be healthier, happier, and more produc‐ tive.”

Douglas Eby's insight: Another aspect of work situations and creative productivity is per‐ sonality, including traits such as high sensitivity and introversion. For example, Susan Cain (author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking") commented in a New York Times ar‐ ticle: "Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introvert‐ ed, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmiha‐ lyi and Gregory Feist." - From my post To Be More Creative, Be An Introvert http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2013/04/tobe-more-creative-be-an-introvert/ Recommend

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