Wired to Create | Carolyn Gregoire & Scott Barry Kaufman | Talks at Google

Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman stopped by NYC to discuss their new book "Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind".
Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire’s popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the “messy minds” of highly creative people. Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire discuss the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history and the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes- like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration - to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity.

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It's possible for people who doesn't have many traits associated with creative to achieve creative greatness by mixing and matching their unique traits?

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If you come to the concept of Introversion via Carl Jung the sense that there is contradiction in Heavy Metal performers as introverts disappears. Our preferences are balanced by our mirror-image personas.

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A uni-sex bathroom is progressive... really? I don't know if it is actually progressive, but definitely it is really creative.

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Creative genius is the same thing as madness.... Only we glorify the schizos that make things we like