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What are we like? What habitual tendencies might help keep our creativity going? Here is our style, our way of approaching life, work, play, our handling of challenges. After studying eminent creative persons across fields, Frank Barron found “originality almost habitual.” This means habitual in general, not just in one’s chosen areas of endeavor. Here we consider “personality,” our cognitive, social, emotional, intentional, qualities and more, and in interaction with environment. The watchwords for everyday creativity, and for living on this earth, include change, and plasticity.
Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver
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Barron and Harrington, “Creativity, Intelligence, and Personality”; Sternberg and Kaufman, “Afterword: The Big Questions,” 376. Degree of domain specificity for creativity remains controversial.
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Richards, “Relations Between Creativity and Psychopathology.”
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Dacey and Lennon, Understanding Creativity, 153. Early in creativity studies, a cognitive model was primary.
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Amabile, Creativity in Context.
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Richards,“A Creative Alchemy,” 119.
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Richards, “When Illness Yields Creativity,” Richards “Everyday Creativity, 199.
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Ibid., 511.
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Ibid., 512.
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Moore, Developing Genome; A. Milne, Two Wings to Fly, 4, www.tlc.ac.nz; Environment helps shape us while we shape it. Notable are programs for creative arts designed to transfer creative behaviors into daily life, even furthering cultural change.
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Gleick, Faster.
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Richards, “Relations Between Creativity and Psychopathology”; also Cropley, “Creativity and Mental Health in Everyday Life.”
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Feist, “The Function of Personality in Creativity,” 114.
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Moore, The Developing Genome, 14.
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Ibid., 8.
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Ibid., 14.
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Pfaff, The Altruistic Brain.
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Shenk, The Genius in All of Us.
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Rosenthal and Jacobson, Pygmalion in the Classroom.
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Feist, “Function of Personality in Creativity,” 114–115, 117.
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Kaufman and Gregoire, Wired to Create, 83.
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Russ, Pretend Play, 71.
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Keller, Feeling for the Organism. Later elected as Nobel Laureate, Dr. McClintock visited Stanford to help a colleague solve a genetic problem, with her approach. Not only did she do that, but seven days later gave a seminar on the findings.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Stephen Sondheim,” 145.
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Russ, Pretend Play.
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Dacey and Lennon, Understanding Creativity, 107–111.
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Richards, “Twelve Potential Benefits,” 290, 307–309.
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Dacey and Lennon, Understanding Creativity, 111.
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Ibid., 109.
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Ibid.
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Eisler, “Our Great Creative Challenge,” 270.
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Barron, Creativity and Psychological Health, 139.
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Costa and Widiger, “Introduction,” 3.
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Kaufman and Gregoire, Wired to Create, 83.
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Grohman, Ivcevic, Silvia, and S Kaufman, “The Role of Passion and Persistence in Creativity,” 380–381.
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McLain, Kefallonitis, and Armani, “Ambiguity Tolerance in Organizations,” 344.
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Cropley, “Creativity and Mental Health in Everyday Life,” p. 231.
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Damasio, Descartes’ Error, 188.
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Richards, “Everyday Creativity,” 200–201.
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Myers, Intuition; see Osho, Intuition, for its development.
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Richards, “Everyday Creativity,” 200.
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Kaufman and Gregoire, Wired to Create.
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Ibid., 61.
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Richards, “Everyday Creativity,” also Myers, Intuition.
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Richards, Ibid., 200.
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Osho, Intuition.
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Kaufman and Gregoire, Wired to Create, 61.
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Damasio, Descartes’ Error, 189.
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Richards, “When Illness Yields Creativity,” 491.
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Richards, “Relations Between Creativity and Psychopathology.” Allusive thinking was found within families.
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Richards, “When Illness Yields Creativity,” 498. My daughter was “thinking in complexes.”
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Vygotsky, Thought and Language.
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Richards, “Beyond Piaget.”
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Russ, Pretend Play, 34.
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Maslow, The Journals of Abraham Maslow.
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Ibid., 168; and Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being.
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House and Kalisch, Humanistic Psychology. We humans are aware and self-aware, can reflect on our actions, affect our cultural evolution, modify our epigenetic parameters, and seed a more prosocial caring direction like this or, frankly, a more destructive one.
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Cropley et al., Dark Side of Creativity.
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Richards, “A Creative Alchemy,” 123.
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Maslow, Toward A Psychology of Being, 145.
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Feinstein and Krippner, The Mythic Path.
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Richards, R. (2018). Creative Person. In: Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55766-7_9
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