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If you’re curious about who the biggest minds in your field got to the top, or if you’re just looking to learn more to enhance your own creativity, this book is worth the read.

Do more of what you love, and less of what you hateīut these are just a few small tidbits pulled from an entire section focused on enhancing personal creativity.Ĭreativity is a fascinating read, with something for all types.

To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

While we might not all win global awards, we can still greatly enrich our lives, and the lives of others, with his insights. But in his conclusion, Csikszentmihalyi wraps up by taking the findings of his research and sharing insights about how to apply it for us little-C creatives.

Or, as Csikszentmihalyi puts it, creativity with a capital C. Most of the book focuses on these high-level accomplishments … the kind that win Nobel Prizes and shifts paradigms. (My apologies to all who must read this copy of the book after me.)īut in addition to featuring small portions on one of my own idols, L’Engle, the book was fascinating for its careful and personal look into the childhoods, personalities, daily habits, attitudes, adult lives, gender, and domains of these exceptional minds. I found myself fascinated, so much so that I had to read slower to take it all in, and accidentally ended up bending back almost every other page to mark some exceptional quote or insight … something I generally try to avoid when borrowing from the library. The content is dense, but the writing in Creativity is accessible.

If you like what you see & want more, join my author email list for updates on my writing, posts about sci-fi and fantasy pop culture, and other readerly fun by clicking here.Ĭreativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Harper Perennial Modern Classics), by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, explores the practices and traits of the contemporary world’s most influential creative minds.īased on his own research, the book breaks down insights he gained from interviewing 91 exceptional individuals in a wide variety of fields between 19–including a number of major notable figures such as author Madeline L’Engle, astronomer Vera Rubin, and many others.Īs Csikszentmihalyi states in the introduction, “The genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a lightbulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.” Through these interviews, the book investigates exactly how and what is involved in the accumulation of these years from every angle. Sorry, I don’t post on Creative Juicer anymore.