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Creativity: Business Savvy or Mental Illness?
Just as a Fast Company article relates that folks now think that the creativity of a CEO is prized over one’s integrity or global thinking, a new Swedish study that found, according to the online Bloomberg BusinessWeek: “Creative people may think broadly and make unusual associations because they, like schizophrenics, may be less able to [...]
The Creativity-Addiction Connection
While we often may discuss the influence of madness on creativity, I’ve rarely run across the connection addiction and creativity. In a blog post on Psychology Today, Mary Sojourner, the author of “She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction” (Seal Press/April 2010), writes about the moment she realized its connection to her [...]
Does madness influence creativity?
I ran across this link to the PRI show, Studio 360. Often I hear the program, but obviously missed this particular one in that they try to determine if madness is a pre-requisite for genius creativity. One example is the artist Munch whose artistic creativity disappeared after he concluded therapy. There is a discussion of [...]
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