“One often meets successful adults, professionals, or scientists who recall that their lifelong vocational interest was first sparked by a visit to a museum. In these accounts, the encounter–with a real, concrete object from a different world an exotic animal, a strange dress, a beautiful artifact–is the kernel from which an entire career of learning…
My mentor, advisor, and the father figure in my life, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, passed away this week on Wednesday, October 20th. I met Mihaly (Mike) soon after my father died unexpectedly at the age of 57. I asked him to be my academic advisor and he took me under his wing. He was only a year…
Organizational research has demonstrated that people who procrastinate are more creative than people who don’t procrastinate. Actually, the results show a bell curve, meaning that a degree of procrastination is helpful in facilitating creative ideas. This is really not so surprising. If you’re someone who anxiously leaps into action to get every task done without…
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