创造力

By discovering what drives you, you can tap into your deepest motivations and achieve your full creative potential, says writer and professor Meta Wagner.

At the end of 2014, find repose by exciting the mind. 52 of the world’s leading thinkers offer the books that inspired them and their work.

宾夕法尼亚大学心理学家斯科特·巴里·考夫曼正主导一项耗资数百万美元的研究，试图量化人类的想象力，并提出”想象力商数”的概念，旨在为传统智商测试提供替代方案。想象力究竟能否被测量？

This week’s virtual mailbag included a personal take on why we should teach creativity, and the accusation that a TED speaker might just be “philosophically redundant.”

We can let our rage scorch us slowly from the inside out — or we can channel it and express it in powerful and beautiful new ways, says writer and activist Soraya Chemaly.

But some jobs — and industries — will still require a human touch. Technology researchers Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson have a guess as to which ones.

“Eat Pray Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert shares 11 ways to think smartly about creativity and how to live a meaningful creative life.

耶鲁大学创意写作主任理查德·德明在新书《这精妙的孤独》中，结合自身经历与克莱因、本雅明、赫斯顿等六位艺术家思想家的人生，探讨孤独的根本矛盾：渴望连结却笃信必遭拒绝。书中揭示，高度的自我觉察能帮助孤独者转而向外，以共情化解孤立，学会与孤独共处而非强行穿越。

You can gain strengths and abilities you didn’t know you had from fantasy role-playing games, says writer Ethan Gilsdorf.

What drives invention? Sometimes, it’s back pain. Here’s how to prime your own creativity to make something new.