Creative Life

Creativity as a way of thinking: writing, ideas, curiosity, and making things that deepen how we see the world.

Personality tests have limited ability to predict actual behavior, and the research has said so for decades, which has done nothing to reduce their popularity

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We are born creative geniuses, and the famous NASA study tells only half the story

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born creative genius

What reading every day actually does to the mind

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Scientists have now formally concluded that ChatGPT is not conscious — and in the same breath left open the possibility that the bee outside your window might be

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A study of 100,000 people just confirmed that AI has passed the average human on creativity tests — and the only people it cannot touch are the kept going when the answer was already good enough

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Research shows that labelling content as AI-generated makes people rate it as lower quality — even when the content is identical to the human version

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Nobody teaches you the actual math behind success — here is the formula most high performers stumbled onto by accident and almost nobody else ever finds

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Nobody tells you that the same mechanism pulling you back to social media is also pulling you toward consuming more information — and once you see the loop, you cannot unsee it

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The four skills that will still matter in a world where AI does most of the cognitive work aren’t the ones being taught in any business school curriculum right now

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Quote of the day by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

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Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.”

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What psychology actually says about messy spaces and creativity

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