{"id":1690323,"date":"2016-01-17T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2016\/01\/17\/a-final-clue-came-from-creativity-flow\/"},"modified":"2016-01-17T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:41:41","slug":"a-final-clue-came-from-creativity-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/17\/a-final-clue-came-from-creativity-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"A final clue came from \u201cCreativity Flow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;A final clue came from \u201cCreativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention\u201d (1996), in which Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acknowledges that, far from being an act of individual inspiration, what we call creativity is simply an expression of professional consensus.<P><br>\n&#8220;Using Vincent van Gogh as an example, the author declares that the artist\u2019s \u201ccreativity came into being when a sufficient number of art experts felt that his paintings had something important to contribute to the domain of art.\u201d Innovation, that is, exists only when the correctly credentialed hivemind agrees that it does.<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;And \u201cwithout such a response,\u201d the author continues, \u201cvan Gogh would have remained what he was, a disturbed man who painted strange canvases.\u201d<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;What determines \u201ccreativity,\u201d in other words, is the very faction it\u2019s supposedly rebelling against: established expertise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/10\/13\/ted_talks_are_lying_to_you\/<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;A final clue came from \u201cCreativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention\u201d (1996), in which Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acknowledges that, far from being an act of individual inspiration, what we call creativity is simply an expression of professional consensus. &#8220;Using Vincent van Gogh as an example, the author declares that the artist\u2019s \u201ccreativity came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[310,446,491,492],"views":686,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690325,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690323\/revisions\/1690325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}