Excellent evidence that it is the context/society & not the creative impulse that leads to dejected depression & other psychoneurosis; Creativity thrives on positivity & encouragement, as well as challenge via persistence (sweat equity); gotta love it.

If you are comfortable you do not see the necessity to stretch yourself. In other words, you do not need to be creative. For those who are struggling to make ends meet, if they get the support and think for themselves, they become creatives!

@arthurattila7835

3 жыл бұрын

Necessity inspires ingenuity & creative effort.

still love it!!

Great!!

@graciellalee2477

3 жыл бұрын

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He describes me 100%. Always thinking, creating new things, ideas, products, solutions.

Let me out!!!!!! Wow, this is too true.....

I think there is a connection between mental illness and creativity. Certainly not a necessary connection, but there does seem to be some underlying biological overlap between the two domains. For instance, schizophrenia and hypomania both (probably) stem at least partly from high dopamine levels. This often results in a flight of ideas or some much less severe stream-of-consciousness type of thinking/speaking. With schizophrenia especially, these ideas are very disconnected, but at the same time there is a sort of free association made between things which a normal person would never think to relate to each other. In the arts more so than the sciences, this free association is integral to the creative process. This doesn't mean you need to be a schizo to be an artist, but this same sort of abnormality of thought and feeling is a current running through both. I'm sure his hypothesis about the role of society/culture in alienating many artists plays a part, but I doubt it's the entire story. There are too many creative types who are clearly unbalanced and were so from a young age, prior to seriously pursuing their craft. Csikszentmihalyi clearly knows far more than I do about this topic and I should study what he has to say about it more, but these are observations I've made in response to hearing similar dismissals of the tortured artist stereotype. It's hard for me to believe there's no basis in reality for it whatsoever.

Before the arts had patrons usually royalty & nobility ,now it’s all about fame & playing to the gallery

middle class => stuck-in-the-middle, neither here nor there...

@arthurattila7835

3 жыл бұрын

I traveled as a musician for years. Those who found success thru perseverance were from situations of modest means, proverty or disfunction. They did not have much to return to. In my experience that was not true about the most creative. They were just creative and at some level did the work. This a fascinating subject.

@AL_THOMAS_777

2 жыл бұрын

Just lacking c r e a t i v i t y - and on a grand scale . . . Creativity is t h e conditio sine qua non 4 any FLOW !!