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Creative minds: the links between mental illness and creativity - Features, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent
At first glance, Einstein, Salvador Dali, Tony Hancock, and Beach Boy Brian Wilson would seem to have little in common. Their areas of physics, modern art, comedy, and rock music, are light years apart. So what, if anything, could possibly link minds that gave the world the theory of relativity, great surreal art, iconic comedy, and songs about surfing?
According to new research, psychosis could be the answer
The End of Alone - The Boston Globe
"It's hard to imagine a Henry David Thoreau emerging from this millennial generation, someone motivated to log two years and two months alone in the woods around Walden and wax about how he "never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." He'd have no time to observe the bullfrogs or water his bean plants. He'd be too busy searching for a Wi-Fi signal.
DESCARTES, NEWTON, LOCKE, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard -- they share the distinction of having been some of the greatest thinkers the world has known. They also share this: None of them ever married or had their own families, and most of them spent the bulk of their lives living alone. In his provocative 1989 book Solitude: A Return to the Self, British writer and psychiatrist Anthony Storr made a persuasive case for the value of deep, uninterrupted alone time. He found it in ample supply in the lives of not just philosophers and physicists, but also some of the greatest poets, novelists, painters, and composers."
Learning To Love You More
This is old, but the assignments are interesting and it calms my obsession with Miranda July. A little bit.
How to Unleash Your Creativity: Scientific American
A short, practical discussion of creativity
John Thomas - OpenContent Wiki
John Thomas on complexity, privacy, copyright and creativity
altered books
Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab
Thinking, brainstorming, idea and creativity guides and print templates.
Three Web-Based Mind Mapping Tools Reviewed
bubble.us, mindomo, and mindmeister reviewed (mindmeister wins... for now)
The Creative Generalist - How Broad Thinking Leads to Big Ideas (PDF)
ideation, unlike creativity, is not a specialized activity.
Ideativity and creativity are not the same thing. Ideas require a divergent, generalist approach
(“a wide net”) while creative endeavours require the opposite: a convergent, specialist
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The Life Cycle of the Creative Soul (PDF)
Creation will bring you recognition. Or not.
Creativity Coaching: 11 Tips to surviving a day job with your creativity intact
A little affirmation never hurts...
Right Brain Workouts
110 aerobic exercises for the creative side of your brain
Creativity Killers
Oriented towards the classroom teacher, but good principles for all
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