As ASMR has received some media attention in recent months, many have taken to public forums to explain their ability to induce ASMR to ease symptoms of these conditions in cases where other routes of treatment may have been lacking or ineffective ( Taylor, 2013 TheWaterwhispers, 2013), while others use ASMR exclusively as a relaxation tool ( Marsden, 2012). There is a suggestion that ASMR may be of use for providing temporary relief to individuals with depression, stress and chronic pain. Those who describe ASMR claim it to be an anomalous sensory experience which has thus far escaped the eye of scientific research. Creative people’s openness and sensitivity often exposes them to suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment.In recent years, there has been growing interest in a previously unknown sensory phenomenon, named Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) by those capable of experiencing it.
Most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they can be extremely objective about it as well.ġ0. Creative people are both rebellious and conservative.ĩ. Creative people, to an extent, escape rigid gender role stereotyping.Ĩ. Creative people are humble and proud at the same time.ħ. Creative people trend to be both extroverted and introverted.Ħ. Creative people alternate between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality.ĥ. Creative people combine playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.Ĥ. Creative people tend to be smart yet naive at the same time.ģ. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but they’re also often quiet and at rest.Ģ.
(I wrote more on the subject in Show Your Work!)Ĭsikszentmihalyi’s TED talk, “ Flow, the secret to happiness”Ĭsikszentmihalyi also wrote a book called Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention and he made an interesting list of “paradoxical traits” of creative people:ġ. It is taken as downright shameful for a man past twenty to indulge in versification unless he receives a check to show for it. Not so long ago, it was acceptable to be an amateur poet….Nowadays if one does not make some money (however pitifully little) out of writing, it’s considered to be a waste of time. He also wrote about the joys of being an amateur: Sometimes even one word is enough to open a window on a new view of the world, to start the mind on an inner journey…. What’s important is to find at least a line, or a verse, that starts to sing.
It provides opportunities to experience a mild state of flow to many people who are stranded in airport lounges, who travel on commuter trains, or who are simply whiling away Sunday mornings.Ĭsikszentmihalyi then goes on to talk explicitly about poetry and writing: It is inexpensive and portable, its challenges can be finely graduated so that both novices and experts can enjoy it, and its solution produces a sense of pleasing order that gives one a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. There is much to be said in favor of this popular pastime, which in its best form resembles the ancient riddle contests. There’s a passage in that book about crossword puzzles that I thought could also be describing my newspaper blackout poems: The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has died.Įarlier this year my 8-year-old said, “When you’re making video games, you have to find that perfect balance between easy and hard?” And I told him he’d basically summarized Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow, and drew him the diagram above to explain.Ĭsikszentmihalyi’s book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience was a big influence on me when I read it back in 2007.
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