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MacArthur Geniuses on the Relationship Between Uncertainty and Creativity
MacArthur Geniuses on the Relationship Between Uncertainty and Creativity

“Cut short of the floundering and you’ve cut short the possible creative outcomes. Cheat on the chaotic stumbling-about, and you’ve robbed yourself of the raw stuff that feeds the imagination.”

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Why “Psychological Androgyny” Is Essential for Creativity
Why “Psychological Androgyny” Is Essential for Creativity

“Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.”

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A Minimalist, Maximally Imaginative Geometric Allegory for the Essence of Friendship and Creativity
A Minimalist, Maximally Imaginative Geometric Allegory for the Essence of Friendship and Creativity

What a circle and a square can teach us about empathy, collaboration, and the origin of great ideas.

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Legendary Composer Aaron Copland on the Conditions of Creativity, Emotion vs. Intellect, and the Trap of Public Opinion
Legendary Composer Aaron Copland on the Conditions of Creativity, Emotion vs. Intellect, and the Trap of Public Opinion

“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.”

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Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.”

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Leonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous “Brain Scan” Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity
Leonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous “Brain Scan” Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity

How the most creative human who ever lived was able to access a different state of consciousness.

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A Wave in the Mind: Virginia Woolf on Creativity and Consciousness
A Wave in the Mind: Virginia Woolf on Creativity and Consciousness

“A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.”

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Joni Mitchell on Freedom, the Source of Creativity, and the Dark Side of Success
Joni Mitchell on Freedom, the Source of Creativity, and the Dark Side of Success

“How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open… to encounter and to… be in touch with the miraculous.”

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Pioneering Psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner on How Creativity Works
Pioneering Psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner on How Creativity Works

“In the course of creative endeavors, artists and scientists join fragments of knowledge into a new unity of understanding.”

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Anthropologist Margaret Mead on Female vs. Male Creativity, Gender in Leadership, Equitable Parenting, and Why Women Make Better Scientists
Anthropologist Margaret Mead on Female vs. Male Creativity, Gender in Leadership, Equitable Parenting, and Why Women Make Better Scientists

“In the long run it is the complex interplay of different capacities, feminine and masculine, that protects the humanity of human beings.”

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