The Messy Minds of Creative People | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network

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One of themes that seems very likely to emerge during this course is the relationship between the nature of creativity and the legal (and extra-legal) constraints on creativity. The issue, put as plainly as can be, is whether the laws and norms which serve to limit creativity should be aligned with the nature of creativity so as to limit harm and dissonance.

The following article describes a framework for creative processes recently published in an academic journal. In summary…”Bringing together lots of different research threads over the years, they identified three “super-factors” of personality that predict creativity: Plasticity, Divergence, and Convergence.” You can read more about those factors in the article here: The Messy Minds of Creative People | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network.

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