How Creativity is Created COPYRIGHT © 2004 BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D. Quality of Life Research Center Claremont Graduate University Claremont, CA Moscow June 25, 2012

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1.General Model Sel ects Transmits Information Culture Domains A E FC B D Society Fields A C B E Produces Novelty Genetics & Environment Persons A C B

2.The Organization Sel ected Transmitted Knowledge Procedure Traditions Market Management Novelty Labor Pool Individual Worker Organizational Culture

3.The Person Retention Learning Knowledge Field Standards Expectations Innovation Cognition Motivation Personality Domain

DESCRIPTION OF HOW IT FEELS WHEN WRITING POETRY GOES WELL “You're right in the work, you lose your sense of time, you're completely enraptured, you're completely caught up in what you're doing…. there's no future or past, it's just an extended present in which you're making meaning…” Poet Mark Strand, 1991

DESCRIPTION OF HOW IT FEELS WHEN DOING RESEARCH GOES WELL “To go into a dark room and look through the microscope and see these glowing objects which may be moving around or may be stationary, and in different colors – it's a video game, if you will. It's just beautiful…I can sit in front of a microscope for three or four hours at a time, just looking at the material and analyzing it….I can be very disconcerting to other people in the degree to which I can concentrate on something and not pay too much attention to what's going on around me.” Cell biologist Joseph G. Gall (1991)

Recent work on the Neuropsychology of Creativity: Bengsten, S.L., Csikszentmihalyi,M. and Fredrik Ullen. (2007) Regions involved in the generation of musical structures during improvisation in pianists. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19:5, pp

Personality Characteristics Of Creative Individuals “ Complexity ” 1.Great energy, vitality, “bounce” ---- Ability to rest, sleep at will. 2.Smartness, convergent thinking ---- Naiveté, childishness, divergent thinking. 3.Playfulness, openness to experience ---- Discipline, responsibility. 4.Imagination, fantasy ---- Reality oriented. 5.Extroverted, sociable ---- Introverted, solitary. 6.Ambitious, proud, competitive ---- Humble, selfless, cooperative. 7.Sensitive, feminine ---- Adventurous, masculine. 8.Traditional, conservative ---- Rebellious, iconoclastic. 9.Attached, involved, passionate ---- Detached, aloof, objective. 10.Suffering, vulnerable, insecure ---- Joyful, strong, self-confident.