Title: Creativity | Psychology Today
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Sources of Creativity
Why are some people more creative than others?
Which personality traits are linked to creativity?
What is “everyday creativity”?
What are “little-c” and “Big-C” creativity?
How to Be More Creative
How can I become more creative?
What leads to a “eureka moment”?
Can creativity be taught?
Can creativity be practiced?
Does creativity benefit mental health?
Creativity and the Brain
What is the default mode network?
What is the salience network?
What is the executive control network?
What is divergent thinking?
Does creativity arise from the right side of the brain?
Creativity and Mental Illness
Are highly creative people more likely to have mental illness?
Why do genius and mental illness often overlap?
Is there a genetic link between creativity and mental illness?
Could there be an evolutionary trade-off between psychiatric illness and creativity?
How can people with mental illness balance the importance of medication with their creative goals?
Dark Creativity
What motivates dark creativity?
Which traits are associated with dark creativity?
Can creativity fall between light and dark?

Content: Another is to change your perspective, such as by imagining what somebody else or somebody in a different time period might think. Yet another is to simply create—creativity requires risk-taking and critical feedback, but persisting through discomfort can lead to an innovative and daring outcome. Does creativity benefit mental health? Created with Sketch. Creativity may offer some surprising psychological benefits. It can contribute to the ability to make meaning—such as finding ways to successfully cope with past experiences such as trauma, regret, or nostalgia, helping to manage moods, relationships, and problem-solving, and establishing one’s professional and personal legacy for the future. Well-being, in turn, may facilitate creative thinking, such as by practicing mindfulness, research suggests. Creativity and the Brain
Creative thinking involves making new connections between different ideas, which is accomplished by cultivating divergent thinking skills and deliberately exposing yourself to new experiences and to learning. While research psychologists are interested in tapping innovative thinking, clinical psychologists sometimes encourage patients to use artistic expression as a way to confront difficult feelings. Three key networks operate as a team to spark creativity in the brain, research suggests.