![]() ![]() It’s not enough to have a really good idea. Some of the most creative ideas ever thought have been lost to the sands of time. ![]() Our creativity wasn’t a thing when we were struggling for survival, but now that we’ve placed ourselves in the creator role, we feel the need to ensure that we’re always creating. However, over time, we’ve taken over the role of creator as we began to shape and control our world. When the first creation myths arose, we were primitive apes that could barely survive except through our work with one another, and even then with haltingly high numbers of casualties. We’ve learned that creativity is hard to predict. The real story of creativity is (as Csikszentmihalyi explains) “more difficult and strange than overly optimistic accounts have claimed.” Creativity is context-sensitive and sensitive to subtle environmental factors that are hard to detect and, in some cases, even harder to create. Creativity, it seems, is a pretty difficult thing to pin down, because it means different things to different people. In Creativity, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dispels the notion that creativity is something that you’re born with and begins a journey with us about how creativity might be encouraged or discouraged. ![]() It’s like someone is born to be an artist, and another person is born to be an accountant. It seems like some people are creative and others are not. Creativity seems to have some mystical property to it. ![]()
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