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Are you a creative person?
In this extensive look at creativity, I’m exploring what it means to be creative, why some people are more creative than others, and how our brains are wired for creative thinking. It’s not as simple as left/right brain, and you might rethink everything you know about creativity after this video.

Special Thanks to:
Kristy Rice @KristyRice
Scott Christian Sava @ssavaart
Sam Denby @Wendoverproductions @jetlagthegame @halfasinteresting
Thomas Frank @Thomasfrank @ThomasFrankExplains
Laurie Shannon @TheIcingArtist

Chapters:
00:00 Why are only some people creative?
02:08 What Is a creative person?
05:48 Is Creativity a Personality Trait?
07:45 What is Creativity?
10:36 Connecting the Dots
12:03 Test: Can You Think Outside the Box?
15:59 Right-Brain Myth
16:16 The Neuroscience of Creative Thinking
17:36 ADHD & Creativity
18:00 The Special Switch in Our Brain
19:49 Are Kids More Creative Than Adults?
24:00 Are We Killing Creative Thinking in Our Kids?
31:30 Why Is Creativity So Important?
34:16 Building Creative Muscles
35:23 How to Increase Your Creativity


References and Further Reading:

Studies:
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/...
The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71...
Thinking “Outside the Box”: Unconstrained Creative Generation in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
Quantity yields quality when it comes to creativity: a brain and behavioral test of the equal-odds rule: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
The Creative Brain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Relationships among creativity indices: Creative potential, production, achievement, and beliefs about own creative personality: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/338...

Books:
Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky
The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Ruben

Articles:
The Walt Disney Creative Strategy: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/rea...
Is a Creative Person Born or Made: https://www.occolondon.com/blogs/lear...
The Neuroscience of Creativity: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
Embracing Bad Ideas To Get To Good Ideas: https://hbr.org/2016/12/embracing-bad...
15 Myths About Creativity: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/bl...
What is Creativity?: https://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creati....
Creativity (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
Ten Habits of Highly Creative People: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/arti...
Creativity: The science behind the madness | Rainn Wilson, David Eagleman & more | Big Think:    • Creativity: The science behind the ma...  
Do Schools Kill Creativity? https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches...
Creativity as a Life Skill: Gerard Puccio at TEDxGramercy:    • Creativity as a Life Skill: Gerard Pu...  
The Circuitry of Creativity: How Our Brains Innovate Thinking: https://caltechletters.org/science/wh...
The Neuroscience of Creativity – A Short Guide: https://www.jeffbullas.com/neuroscien...
The Importance of Creativity in Business: https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/impo...
The Creativity of ADHD: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
The executive control network and symptomatic improvement in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26363...
Interactions between attention-grabbing networks weak in ADHD: https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/...
ADHD’s Secret Demon — and How to Tame It: https://www.additudemag.com/default-m...
Side Project Time (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_pr...

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