Psychology, Annenburg/CPB Collection featuring Philip Zimbardo, video 4, program 20: Constructing social reality (WGBH, Boston: PBS Educational video in association with the APA, 1989), VHS tape.
38Teresa M. Amabile, Creativity in Context (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), 117-19.
39Amabile, Creativity in Context, 119.
40Ibid., 132-33.
41Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, 55.
42See Howard Gardner’s discussion of this theory in Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 117-19.
43David Campbell, Take the Road to Creativity, (Allen, TX: Argus, 1977), 43-71.
44Amabile, Creativity in Context, 35, 36.
45Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day (New York: Delacorte, 1998), 48-75.
46Quoted in Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, 50.
47Richard Feynman, Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, ed. Ralph Leighton (New York, London: Norton, 2006), 5.
48The quote is from Classic Feynman, 168; the safecracking episodes are narrated in 154-71, with the quoted note on 165; the plate spinning episode on 190-91.
49Albert Rothenberg, “The Process of Janusian Thinking in Creativity,” Archives of General Psychiatry 24 (1971): 195.
50Isaacson, Einstein, 15.
51Silvano Arieti, Creativity: The Magic Synthesis (New York: Basic Books, Harper Colophon, 1976), 136.
52Amabile, Creativity in Context, 82-83, 77.
53Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity, 27-28.
54Dean Keith Simonton, “Creativity as a Constrained Stochastic Process,” in Creativity: From Potential to Realization, ed. Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko, and Jerome L. Singer, (Washington, D.C.: APA, 2004), 84.
55Ross King, Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (New York: Walker, 2000), 57-62, 70-75.
56Albert and Runco, 1999; Sternberg, 1999; Simonton, 2004. Sheldrake, 310-16, has a good overview of the mechanistic philosophy of the seventeenth century. See also Bunny Paine-Clemes, “The Yugas: Divine Agents of Change,” Joy: The Journal of Yoga, 4, No. 3 (Summer 2005). (Posted July, 2005, at www.journalofyoga.org/).
57Bloom, Genius, 11.
58Federico Fellini, Fellini: I’m a Born Liar, (First Look Media: 2003), documentary movie.
59Emerson’s Journals: October 27, 1831, quoted in Bloom, Genius, 3.
60These statistics are quoted in Feist and Runco, 1993, 272, as cited in Albert and Runco, 1999, 17.
61Amabile, Creativity in Context, 3-41.
62For instance, see Seligman, 110; Sternberg, “What is the Common Thread of Creativity?” 360.
63Jacques Barzun, “The Paradoxes of Creativity,” American Scholar 58, no. 3 (Summer 1989): 341.
64Sternberg, “What is the Common Thread of Creativity?”, 361.
65Vera John-Steiner, Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking, rev. ed. (1985; New York Oxford University Press, 1997), 79.
Synergistic Interlude
Alice in Wonderland Chapter I: “Down the Rabbit Hole”
“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do . . .
“So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
“There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit hole under the hedge.
“In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
