CRI 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity
8 Jan 2018
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There is a curious cultural disconnect between our mythology of spontaneous ideation. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, the neural circuitry has been working on the problems for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you merely take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden political machinery behind the scenes. Creativity"s most frustrating reality is that this crux of combinatorial creation that magic moment when ideas click together and (cid:838)make a stable combination(cid:839) cannot be forced. We can optimize our minds for combinatorial creativity by enriching our mental pool of resources with diverse, eclectic, cross-disciplinary pieces which to fuse together into new combinations. Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artefacts that are new, surprising and valuable. Psychological creativity: coming up with a surprising and valuable idea that"s n ew to the person that comes up with it.
