Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity Is Within Your Reach

What does it mean to be a creative person? Here are the results of extensive research on the subject. Professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, and author of the bestselling Flow (HarperCollins 1990) and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (HarperCollins 1996), Czikszentmihalyi tells how outstandingly creative people differ from ordinary people, and how those of us who consider ourselves more ordinary can cultivate the spark of creativity within. He describes how creative expression improves with age; how to avoid discouraging it in children; how art fits into its social context; and other insights to help you understand and express your own creativity in new ways. "Each one of us can experience the feeling of discovery," says Czikszentmihalyi. "...That kind of creativity is what makes life really full and worth living."

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