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
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen.

Without the assessment of competent outsiders, there is no reliable way to decide whether the claims of a self-styled creative person are valid.

Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognize and validate the innovation.

These are not incidental contributors to individual originality but essential components of the creative process, on a par with the individual’s own contributions.

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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Book) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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