It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment than by trying to make people think more creatively.
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
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.
Loading...If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
An American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music and one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.
Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen. Many discoveries would be inconceivable without the prior knowledge, without the intellectual and social network that stimulated creative thinking, and without the social mechanisms that recognized and spread the innovations.
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
