Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of FlowCreativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (“The leading researcher into ‘flow states.’” — Newsweek) reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the "tortured genius" is largely a myth. Most important, he explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.

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Flow (by this author) has been one of my favorite books for many years. I was eager to see what this author had to say about the mental process of creativity.However, this book has a far different style and focus than Flow. It's so different, I am not even sure if it's written by the same person!This book is essentially meandering musings in sociology and has little to do with what we normally call "creativity." It should have had the more accurate tagline of something like "how different cultures support and absorb new ideas."The first error the author makes near the beginning is a flawed definition of creativity: ideas that *successfully result in being absorbed in to or changing a field of study*. This definition mixes incompatible concepts, and is therefore impossible to work with; this definition mixes personal mental processes, whether a culture invites creativity, quality of the new idea, luck, etc. Imagine how disastrous a book would be that tried to combine the color red, depression, cylinders, inflation, and sneezing all in to one unified concept.Perhaps as a result of this bizarre definition, the author's musings meander hopelessly and painfully for hundreds of pages without working toward any new or useful idea. In fact, it really seems like the author goes out of his way to avoid making any conclusions about anything at all. I found myself thinking repeatedly "Will you please say something definite about anything? Will you please make a point?!" Perhaps this is the result of the "soft" science of sociology and/or the destructive definition that the author begins with. (Ironically, he laments why sociology doesn't get the love and support that the more tangible sciences do---this book certainly doesn't help his case.)Another disagreement I have with his musings (to the extent that he says anything definite), is that he all but drains any credit to any of the individuals that have greatly improved the world we live in--instead, he says they're mostly a product of the culture they live in. I can choose to watch Oprah, baseball, reality shows, drink beer all day, or I can choose to work my ass off studying, thinking and integrating. In every moment of every day, we all choose to think or not to think (and what is important to think about). If I knew that my choices made little difference in how my life's work would be, and that it was mostly a result of the society I happen to be born in to, I would have simply played video games all day and ate lots of pie.But again, this proclamation is somewhat understandable given his horrible definition up front. If Issac Newton and Jackson Pollock are treated as equals (creatives that changed their fields), then there's all sorts of crazy conclusions that one can spew out--all unrelated to reality.Unlike Flow, I found nothing useful in this book save the inspiration to read about some of the great works of art and architecture in Florence from the beginning of the Renaissance. You have been warned.

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