Creativity is the central source of meaning in our lives. For a host of reasons. Yet, the real story of creativity is far more formidable and enigmatic than what meets the mind, eye, or the ear. It is also much more difficult to comprehend than what several optimistic accounts — scientific, or otherwise — have claimed.
When Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a noted professor of psychology, published his landmark book, Flow, exactly 30 years ago, it exemplified the creativity exemplar; it also demystified the element and its raison d’être. In so doing, it brought to light how the creative label has evolved from the synergy of several sources, and not just from the mind of a single individual.
Agreed that Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘novel’ credo of creativity and the flow experience is not as simple as it may sound on the surface; it is complex. Yet, it is comprehensible and articulate for anyone who wants to know the what-is-what-and-not of creativity as a whole — the sum of the parts and part of the whole.
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