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• 26 Aug 10
  

  gracious anne

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• 12 Mar 10
  

  Mae G

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• 22 Oct 08
  

  Nele Noppe

  creativity fandom phd phd_unfinished

  • First, Epstein, a psychologist, has found that there are four different skill sets that he says are essential for creative expression.
  • The first and most important competency is "capturing" - preserving new ideas as they occur to you and doing so without judging them. ...
  • The second competency is called "challenging" - giving ourselves tough problems to solve.
  • The third area is "broadening." The more diverse your knowledge, the more interesting the interconnections - so you can boost your creativity simply by learning interesting new things.
  • And the last competency is "surrounding," which has to do with how you manage your physical and social environments. The more interesting and diverse the things and people around you, the more interesting your own ideas become.
  • The similarities to fandom activity struck me as soon as I first read this.
  • In other words, failure actually stimulates creativity directly. It really is valuable.

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• 18 Aug 08
  

  adreamelin

  So this morning I was reading Scientific American Mind, specifically an article called "Let Your Creativity Soar" by Mariette DiChristina, John Houtz, Julia Cameron, and Robert Epstein (June/July 2008). There were quite a lot of similarities in the discus

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• 11 Aug 08
  

  dustdaughter

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