Truly creative people have a capacity to change the fundamental way we see, understand, appreciate or do things, whether it is by the invention of a new machine or the writing of a set of songs, and the author wanted to know what made them different.Ĭreativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention was the culmination of 30 years of work into creativity. He was not interested in what he calls the ‘small c’ creativity involved in the making of a nice cake or the choosing of curtains or the imaginative talk of a child - but that which changes a whole ‘domain’, or area of human endeavor. You might want to become a good dancer, but it is the learning and dancing itself that is the main reward.Ĭsikszentmihalyi took these ideas and applied them to the question of how some people become genuinely creative. You might want to win a game of chess, for instance, but you play it because it engages your mind totally. Flow activities we do for the sheer enjoyment or intellectual satisfaction, rather than some extrinsic reward to be gained. Rather, we should recognize when we are genuinely happy – what we are doing when we feel powerful and 'true', and do more of those things. The insight of Flow was that it is a mistake to pursue happiness itself. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Inventionīefore turning his mind to creativity, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote the celebrated book Flow.
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