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Creative process: Eric Hoffer – Play and the creative impulse
In his book, The Ordeal of Change, the philosopher and social thinker Eric Hoffer suggests that creativity is more likely to flow from what Hoffer calls “the playful mood” than from strong effort in a mental state of deadly earnestness and seriousness. … Continue reading
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