On creativity
by David Bohm · first published 1998
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"Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity, David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and of imagination but also that of perception and of discovery. The creative impulse is instinctive to everyone, but its revolutionary potential is rarely realised. For, he argues, its success depends upon the individual's ability to jolt the workaday mind into a dynamic state that enables true creativity and originality to become possible. By awakening this creative state of mind each person can then disco
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Might I recommend: David Bohm wrote a very accessible book on creativity--what it is, how it works, etc. http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Routledge-Classics-David-Bo...
on “The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People” ↗…Nikola Tesla's autobiography: http://www.mystacki.com/#!/binder/35/nikola-tesla%27s-autobi... 2. Swami Vivekananda's complete works: http://www.mystacki.com/#!/binder/45/swami-vivakananda 3. David Bohm on creativity: http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Routledge-Classics-David-Bo... I have been reading these three authors for many years, over and over again. In his autobiography, Tesla brings forth many exciting things…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗guilty as charged ! But Bohm's "On Creativity", to me presents a much deeper "philosophical" take on a) what is creativity and b) how to foster it. And I dont see it referenced in this text at all. Again, since this is about persuation, it is what…
on “Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014)” ↗…such perception of some very general and fundamental feature of the harmony of nature’s order. Such perceptions, when expressed systematically and formally, are called “laws of nature.” -- David Bohm, On Creativity
on “On Mathematical Beauty in Physics” ↗