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Creativity, insight and “eureka moments,” with John Kounios, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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How Much of a Creative Genieis in Human History

There's some thinking that these insights arise spontaneously. And yet, if you look more closely at the lives of some people, they've actually spent hundreds of hours working at their craft or their science before they reach these achievements. How much is only possible because of the obsessive focus on a particular specialty? Whether it's music or science or painting, whatever it is that you're obsessed with, it depends on what you want to be creative.

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