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Barry Schwartz – People think more creatively and expansively when they are happy

All other things being equal, it’s better to be happy than not

Despite our romantic images of suffering geniuses who have enriched our civilization, creative by day and tormented by night, there is a growing body of evidence that people think more creatively and expansively when they’re happy than when they’re not.

Source: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Book) by Barry Schwartz

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Zaha Hadid Work
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid

A British Iraqi architect from Baghdad. The "Queen of the curve", who liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity

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When people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentration upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

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Seth Godin on Art!

Seth Godin on Art!

Art isn’t just painting pictures or composing music. It’s any activity that you pursue creatively with the aim of producing something new in the world. Maybe it’s a revolutionary customer service system, or a new form of abstract painting.

Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? (Book) by Seth Godin

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David Carson Design Unique
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

A German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

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Without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.

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.

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The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung
Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

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iPod Copy Cats Plagiarism
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Picasso had a saying — ‘good artists copy; great artists steal’ — and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs

A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s and a co-founder and later a chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.

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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.

John Cage
John Cage

An American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music and one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.

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