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Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work

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external site | Recommend | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:40

Psychology Today: The Creative Personality [via delicious.com/huxant, w/a reminder by Jack Shedd] Some days, I can’t decide how I feel about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say: “chick SENT me high”). He’s written some great stuff, but, sometimes, he mixes Big-Word academicspeak with anecdotal observation in a way that smells a little hokey to me. So, although I’m trying not to audibly roll my eyes at a pop-psychology Top 10 list about creativity’s “dialectical tension,” I definitely am interested in one of his observations about the “paradox”...