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Why Creative People Are Often Considered Odd

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Why Creative People Are Often Considered Odd

Attention is a finite resource, and as such, creative people don’t have too much to spare. Here’s why this can be a problem

Larry G. Maguire
Oct 7, 2019
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Why Creative People Are Often Considered Odd

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Attention is a finite resource, and as such, creative people don’t have too much to spare. Here’s why this can be a problem

When Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and author, contacted management consultant Peter Drucker in the mid-90s requesting his participation in a study of creativity, he received a decline fro…

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