Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discoveries and Inventions
Author: Михай Чиксентмихайи
Printhouse: Al'pina Pablisher
Age restrictions: 16+
Year of publication: 2025
ISBN: 9785001396413
Number of pages: 576
Size: 215х146х27 mm
Cover type: hard
Weight: 658 g
ID: 1732199
The creative person - what is special about them? And why does creativity make life richer and happier? Talented artists, musicians, writers, scientists, leaders of the largest corporations - Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied the fates of 90 greatest people of the 20th century. This research remains the most profound scientific work dedicated to creativity, and it dispels numerous common stereotypes about what makes a person creative and what stimulates creative impulses. Using the theory of flow, the scientist shows what the creative process is and why creativity is so essential for humans.
The book will be useful for parents who strive to develop their child's abilities, for those interested in the problems of creativity, and finally, for everyone who is trying to understand how to become happy.