As a clinical psychologist, I have been fortunate to work with many creative and talented people over my career. My area of focus during graduate school was creativity and mental illness. My primary ...

The findings, published in Scientific Reports, point to a major shift. Generative AI systems have now reached a level where they can outperform the average human on certain creativity measures. At the ...

Creative thinkers live in a world of endless possibilities. Creative people often have chaotic bursts of inspiration that lead to what they believe are great ideas, but that people with average minds ...

Throughout my four-decade career, as an author of over 100 books, and a professor of education, I have been driven to understand the behaviors of the most creative people. Everyone is capable of ...

Your desk is covered with papers, books, and random objects. Your workspace looks like a hurricane passed through. People judge this mess as laziness or disorganization. Research consistently shows ...

There's an old idea that madness and genius go together. We like to link art and danger, imagining that artists, like Christ figures, suffer for our sake, enduring poverty and terrors in order to ...

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Creative thinkers don’t just see the world differently—they interact with it differently, too. Their habits may look strange, impulsive, or unconventional from the outside, but these quirky behaviors ...

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