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I stumbled across this really fascinating article on the creative process over at the Times which explains the psychology behind the creative process.
The article is actually an interview with Washington University psychologist R. Keith Sawyer, who is a leader in the field of studying creativity. In it, he shares some valuable insights that all [...]
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I love daydreaming, it’s one of my favorite activities. Like most people though, I always feel a little guilty doing it, because daydreaming is seen as counter productive. Time spent daydreaming is time that could be spent doing something worthwhile, something more productive.
I’ve never liked that belief about daydreaming though, because I get [...]
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist behind the concept of flow and guru on all things having to do with creativity, has posted an excerpt of sorts from his book Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People on Psychology Today and it is excellent. So excellent in fact that I started copy and pasting [...]
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In the video below, the presenter is Clay Shirky, who brings up an excellent point while talking at the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo. He says that the shocking amount of time that we spend watching TV is shrinking, and is being replaced by time spent online.
And being online is not just about absorbing, [...]
This post is a bit of a conglomeration of ideas, and I haven’t quite worked out how all the pieces fit together in my mind yet, so if it seems a bit disorganized and unfinished just bear with me, I really wanted to get this out there.
I stumbled across this article from a 2001 psychological [...]
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