Perhaps we build a custom headboard for our bedroom or think of a faster way to do the dishes. Many are personally creative in our everyday lives. To study creativity, Csikszentmihalyi starts by defining what ‘creativity’ is: to be sure, many people are brilliant and interesting, but leave no lasting impact on their culture or society. A daunting and ambiguous task, to be sure. This time, his focus is on creativity: what it is, how it works, and what we can do to live a more satisfying and creative life. Like his previous book Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi attempts here to get at what it means to spend your life in a meaningful way. It means developing schedules to protect your time and avoid distraction, arranging your surroundings to heighten concentration, cutting out meaningless chores that soak up psychic energy, and devoting the energy thus saved to what you really care about.” “The only way to stay creative is to oppose the wear and tear of existence with techniques that organize time, space, and activity to your advantage.
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