A British Iraqi architect from Baghdad. The "Queen of the curve", who liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity
Creativity
Creativity & Ideas
Just as the sound of a tree crashing in the forest is unheard if nobody is there to hear it, so creative ideas vanish unless there is a receptive audience to record and implement them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
Collective Thinking
Creativity & Ideas
The right idea is often the opposite of the obvious.
Alex F. Osborn
An American advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.
Creativity & Ideas
Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.
Nir Eyal
Author of books on technology, psychology and business whose writings appear in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.