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Wired To Create
Scott Barry Kaufman & Carolyn Gregoire
3.92 (1618 Reviews)
Creativity
Psychology
Self-growth
Panoramica
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Discover why creative geniuses embrace paradox in "Wired to Create," the psychology masterpiece exploring how minds like Picasso and Kahlo thrived between mindfulness and daydreaming. Endorsed by top psychologists, it reveals why your contradictions might be your greatest creative advantage.

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The Messy Genius Within

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Think of the last time you had a breakthrough idea. Maybe it arrived in the shower, during a walk, or while staring out a window-anywhere but hunched over your desk desperately seeking it. That's the paradox of creativity: it refuses to follow the rules we set for it. Creative minds don't operate like well-oiled machines following predictable patterns. They're more like jazz improvisations-structured yet spontaneous, disciplined yet wild. The traditional four-stage model of creativity suggests a neat progression from preparation to insight, but reality is far messier. Creative people toggle rapidly between generating wild ideas, refining them critically, and considering how others might receive them-often all at once. Fiction writers rarely know their destination when they begin; they discover it along the journey. This cognitive complexity explains why highly creative individuals seem to embody contradictions: simultaneously introverted and extroverted, playful and serious, realistic and fantastical. Their brains engage multiple networks that typically oppose each other-the imagination network, executive attention network, and salience network-in an intricate dance. Rather than resolving these paradoxes, creative people harness them, switching flexibly between opposing mental states as needed. The creative journey isn't about eliminating these tensions but learning to dance between them with grace and intention.

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