Our self concept, recognition of our talents, appreciation for divergent thinking and pursuit of creativity can be guided and nurtured, or corroded and even corrupted, by our school experiences.
In his article Do schools kill creativity?, Sir Ken Robinson notes that “kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go. They’re not [...]

Much writing and advice on enhancing creativity focuses on the individual. But creating happens in a social context, and it depends on inspiration from others, and on getting an audience, and support from publishers and producers. Creative work impacts other people, even worldwide. But being creative can also be inhibited by others.
Dancer, choreographer and teacher [...]

“The danger of censorship in the United States is less from business or the religious right or the self-righteous left than from the self-censorship of artists themselves, who simply give up.”
Writer and director Frank Pierson (former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) added, “If we can’t see a way to get [...]

Creativity coach and therapist Eric Maisel, PhD notes the word mindfulness “stands for the nonjudgmental observation and acknowledgment of our thoughts.
“We notice the thought - for example, ‘I am running from my writing’ - and acknowledge that we had the thought. The thought comes, we notice it, and it goes.
“The central goal of ordinary mindfulness [...]

Painter Robert Genn notes a definition of confabulation is “the confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories.”
In his article Marvelous confabulation, he writes, “Perhaps it’s only with the addition of confabulation that art delivers its wizardry and magic.
“Early researchers, such as psychologist Daniel Berlyne (1972), linked confabulation with [...]

There seems to be an enduring mythology about creative inspiration and performing as an actor, for example, that it benefits from an “edge” of nervous tension or even anxiety.
Creativity coach and writer Eric Maisel, PhD comments in our interview Ten Zen Seconds (about his new book) that this really is a false and distorting idea: [...]