I really enjoyed a new book on creativity, How To Fly a Horse, by Kevin Ashton. He echoes what I’ve been saying for the last ten years: The flash of insight is a myth; Instead, creativity emer...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/how-to-fly-a-horse-another-book-on-creativity/
In 2007, my book Group Genius made a radical claim: The discipline of psychology could never explain creativity, because creativity emerges from collaborative groups and networks. In 2007, this p...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/group-genius-radical-in-2007-conventional-wisdom-today/
Artists have a reputation for being unhappy and depressed. We tend to believe that artists are more likely to have mental illness than the rest of us–whether depression, bipolar disorder, alcoh...
Now available from Oxford University Press: Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, Second Edition http://www.explainingcreativity.com When I published the first edition of Explai...
This summer, I’m finishing the second edition of my creativity textbook, Explaining Creativity. The first edition, published in 2006, had 16 chapters from a variety of scientific perspectives�...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/new-edition-of-creativity-book/
I just returned from a visit to The Teaching Company. You may have seen their ads in the Wall Street Journal or any number of other publications; they develop and sell videotape and audiotape c...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/teaching-creativity/