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Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention

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This is one of those books that feels like it was written for me. The satisfaction of an interesting topic (how creativity works), a decent number of examples (not too little, not too many), a perfect structure and incredible breakdown and takeaways just made it an absolute pleasure to read. The book starts with stating a message I just think was very thought provoking: we’ve moved from thinking that the Gods created everything around us to thinking that we created the Gods. We have taken upon ourselves the role of creator with little thought towards what creation is, how to optimise it. We are not wrong in thinking it is our highest calling and greatest pleasure, but why then, do we not treat it as seriously and with intention as we should? A mental trick to make you more likely to to something is to imagine that for the next few hours, you are in prison. That time doesn’t matter, that you have nothing better to do. You are more likely to enjoy the process of work if you don’t start c

📕Book: Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PhD This is one of those books that feels like it was written for me. The satisfaction of an interesting topic (how creativity works), a decent number of examples (not too little, not too many), a perfect structure and incredible breakdown and takeaways just made it an absolute pleasure to read. The book starts with stating a message I just think was very thought provoking: we’ve moved from thinking that the Gods created everything around us to thinking that we created the Gods. We have taken upon ourselv

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