Ideas and resources for understanding and increasing creativity
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child Do you have any hobbies? Before you answer, take some time to think about how you feel about the question. When we make time on a regular basis for our hobbies, we might be accused of having too much time on …
Do you want to know how to be more creative or how to help children to hang on to their creativity? See my latest Psychology Today piece, “Be More Creative Today.”
When was the last time you played, really played, as in tuned out the rest of the world and joined your hands and imagination for the sake of nothing more than fun? Earlier this quarter, just before the holiday break, I gave small groups of students in my Creative Thinking class piles of assorted LEGO …
“Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.” ~ Albert Einstein “The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.” ~ John Keats Have you ever …
“We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell ourselves. That has always been true. But personal narrative has become more prevalent, and perhaps more urgent, in a time of abundance, when many of us are freer to seek a …