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  2. Dec 8, 2017 · Motivation researcher Carol Dweck has found that people with a growth mindset believe they can learn, develop skills, and solve problems through application, dedication, and hard work—while those with a fixed mindset believe their capacity to learn is predetermined and limited. How to Find Inspiration.

  3. Mar 1, 2017 · You get glimpses of this in the arid, dry-as-bones grasses rendered in startlingly precise detail, the wreck of a house on a hill with a mysterious ladder leading to a second-story window, a lone...

    • Jennifer Haupt
    • Inspiration has three main qualities. Pyschologists Todd M. Thrash and Andrew J. Elliot have noted these core aspects of inspiration: evocation, transcendence, and approach motivation.
    • Inspired people share certain characteristics. Thrash and Elliot developed the “Inspiration Scale,” which measures the frequency with which a person experiences inspiration in their daily lives.
    • Inspiration is not the same as positive affect. Compared to the normal experiences of everyday life, inspiration involves elevated levels of positive affect and task involvement, and lower levels of negative affect.
    • Inspiration is the springboard for creativity. Inspired people view themselves as more creative and show actual increases in self-ratings of creativity over time.
    • Wake up when your body tells you to. No one has ever been tired and inspired at the same time. To make matters worse, having our sleep interrupted by an alarm clock or other stimulus can leave us feeling groggy and grouchy, as though we had ‘woken up on the wrong foot’.
    • Complete your dreams. REM sleep, which is associated with dreaming, is richest just before *natural* awakening. Dreaming serves a number of critical functions, such as assimilating experiences, processing emotions, and enhancing problem solving and creativity.
    • Eliminate distractions, especially the tedious ones. Clear your diary, remove yourself from the world, take plenty of time over everything. You want to give your mind plenty of spare capacity.
    • Don’t try to rush or force things. If you try to force inspiration, you will strangle it. You will achieve much less overall, if not also in quantity then at least in quality.
  4. Nov 19, 2013 · Creativity and inspiration come from a place of mulling and rumination, not forceful whip-snapping.

  5. In 1932 Pablo Picasso experienced a burst of creativity. But where does such inspiration come from? Artists, musicians and writers unravel some of the myths around creativity. Hear how we can unlock our powers of invention and overcome a creative drought.

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