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Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The authors objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab, so that knowledge can be used to enrich peoples lives. Drawing on 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders, poets and artists, as well as his 30 years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the tortured genius is largely a myth. Most important, he clearly explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.
[...]... so? The explanation is that the field of art became particularly favorable to the creation of new works at just about the same time as the rediscovery of the ancient domains of art Florence had become one of the richest cities in Europe first through trading, then through the manufacture of wool and other textiles, and finally through the financial expertise of its rich merchants By the end of the. .. scrutiny of the members of the Opera, the dome over the cathedral would probably not have been as beautiful as it eventually turned out to be Another illustration of how the field of art operated in Florence at this time concerns the building of the north and especially the east door of the baptistery, one of the uncontested masterpieces of the period, which Michelangelo declared was worthy of being the “Gate... demands of their role inevitably push them toward specialization and selfishness Of the many paradoxes of creativity, this is perhaps the most difficult to avoid WHAT’S THE GOOD OF STUDYING CREATIVITY? There are two main reasons why looking closely at the lives of creative individuals and the contexts of their accomplishments is useful The first is the most obvious one: The results of creativity enrich the. .. helpless, at the mercy of cold, hunger, wild beasts, and one another They had no idea how to explain the great forces they saw around them the rising and setting of the sun, the wheeling stars, the alternating seasons Awe suffused their groping for a foothold in this mysterious world Then, slowly at first, and with increasing speed in the last thousand years or so, we began to understand how things... prerogative of supreme beings Religions the world over are based on origin myths in which one or more gods shaped the heavens, the earth, and the waters Somewhere along the line they also created men and women—puny, helpless things subject to the wrath of the gods It was only very recently in the history of the human race that the tables were reversed: It was now men and women who were the creators and gods the. .. themes Then they wrote to some of the most eminent philosophers, writers, and churchmen in Europe to request their opinion of which scenes from the Bible should be included in the panels, and how they should be represented After the answers came in, they drew up a list of specifications for the doors and in 1401 announced a competition for their design From the dozens of drawings submitted the board... apse There was no known method for preventing the walls from collapsing inward once the curvature of the dome had advanced beyond a certain height Every year eager young artists and established builders submitted plans to the Opera del Duomo, the board that supervised the building of the cathedral, but their plans were found unpersuasive The Opera was made up of the political and business leaders of the. .. city, and their personal reputations were at stake in this choice For eighty years they did not feel that any proposed solution for the completion of the dome was worthy of the city, and of themselves But eventually humanist scholars became interested in the Pantheon of Rome, measured its enormous dome, and analyzed how it had been constructed The Pantheon had been rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian in the. .. influential the rediscovery of classical art forms, the Florentine Renaissance cannot be explained only in terms of the sudden availability of information Otherwise, the same flowering of new artistic forms would have taken place in all the other cities exposed to the ancient models And though this actually did happen to a certain extent, no other place matched Florence in the intensity and depth of artistic... up alone and then I would think that the spectra were not good enough, and then I would show it to my colleagues and they would believe it and they could see two lines, or they couldn’t, and I would worry about whether the sky was doing something funny So I decided, because the 1991 applications for using the main telescopes had already passed, that in the spring of ’92 I would go and get another spectrum . Creativity? Three: The Creative Personality Four: The Work of Creativity Five: The Flow of Creativity Six: Creative Surroundings PART II THE LIVES Seven: The Early Years Eight: The Later Years Nine: Creative. alt="" CREATIVITY FLOW AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI CONTENTS Acknowledgments One: Setting the Stage PART I THE CREATIVE PROCESS Two: Where Is Creativity? Three:. STAGE This book is about creativity, based on histories of contemporary people who know about it firsthand. It starts with a description of what creativity is, it reviews the way creative people work and