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创意人士的不同之处

Learn from creatives' examples to nurture your own creativity.

从创意人士的例子中学习，培养你自己的创造力。

Posted December 19, 2024 |  Reviewed by Michelle Quirk

发表于 2024 年 12 月 19 日 | 由 Michelle Quirk 测评

Many people would like to be more creative.Many of them doubt themselves or let critics shut down their dreams.Thinking differently can help anyone connect with their creative side.

许多人希望更有创意。他们中的许多人怀疑自己或让批评家关闭他们的梦想。以不同的方式思考可以帮助任何人与他们的创造力建立联系。

As a clinical psychologist, I have been fortunate to work with many creative and talented people over my career. My area of focus during graduate school was creativity and mental illness. My primary emphasis was on debunking the notion that creative geniuses must suffer in some way for their art. Fortunately, much of the research belies this myth, although there are many famous examples where it holds true. These troubled geniuses often stand out in people’s minds; think van Gogh, Hemingway, and others.

作为一名临床心理学家，我有幸在我的职业生涯中与许多富有创造力和才华的人一起工作。我在研究生期间关注的领域是创造力和精神疾病。我的主要重点是揭穿这样一种观念，即有创造力的天才必须为他们的艺术以某种方式受苦。幸运的是，大部分研究都掩盖了这个神话，尽管有许多著名的例子证明它是正确的。这些陷入困境的天才往往在人们的心目中脱颖而出;想想梵高、海明威和其他人。

In recent years, I have worked in therapy with two best-selling authors and several musicians. In examining this clinical experience, as well as reviewing recent literature on the topic, I want to offer the following suggestions that may be useful to those of you who wish to be more creative. If you are a parent, I would also encourage you to provide an environment in which your children are fostered in their creative development. The following apply to people of all ages who wish to be creative.

近年来，我与两位畅销书作家和几位音乐家一起从事治疗工作。在研究这一临床经验以及回顾有关该主题的最新文献时，我想提供以下建议，这些建议可能对那些希望更具创造力的人有用。如果您是父母，我还鼓励您提供一个环境，让您的孩子在他们的创造力发展中得到培养。以下内容适用于希望发挥创造力的所有年龄段的人。

Creative People Ask "Why Not Me?"

有创造力的人会问“为什么不是我？

Many of us hit a brick wall when we realize that something has not been done before. It is as if we say to ourselves, “Well, no one has figured out how to do ___, so I likely won’t be the first.” And, so, we move on. This experience is known as the Bannister Effect, based on the perceived impossibility of running faster than a four-minute mile. Once Roger Bannister removed this psychological barrier by accomplishing this feat, many other athletes soon followed.

当我们意识到以前没有做过的事情时，我们中的许多人都会碰壁。就好像我们对自己说，“嗯，没有人弄清楚如何做 ___，所以我可能不会是第一个。所以，我们继续前进。这种体验被称为班尼斯特效应，基于人们认为跑得不可能超过四分钟一英里。一旦罗杰·班尼斯特 （Roger Bannister） 通过完成这一壮举消除了这一心理障碍，许多其他运动员很快就效仿了。

Creative People Can Hold Two Disparate Ideas in Mind at the Same Time

有创造力的人可以同时牢记两个不同的想法

It is often useful to classify and organize the information in our environment. This helps us to understand the world better, including any perceived threats. It can also limit our creativity. If we remove this barrier, we can see the world differently. This is what Andy Warhol did so beautifully. He took everyday objects such as Campbell Soup cans and transformed them into works of art.

在我们的环境中对信息进行分类和组织通常很有用。这有助于我们更好地了解世界，包括任何感知到的威胁。它还会限制我们的创造力。如果我们消除这个障碍，我们就能以不同的方式看待世界。这就是安迪·沃霍尔 （Andy Warhol） 做得如此漂亮的地方。他将金宝汤罐头等日常用品变成了艺术品。

Creative People Do Not Take No for an Answer

有创造力的人不会把“不”当作答案

This includes from themselves! Many of us get derailed by either self-criticism or negative feedback from others. Thomas Edison, for instance, reportedly worked through more than 2,000 failed prototypes before inventing the lightbulb. I think it is fair to say that most people would have given up. Nearly everyone was certain that air travel, and later space travel, were scientifically impossible until visionaries proved them wrong. The same can be said of many other inventors, scientists, and artists. They do not let self-doubt or external criticism sway them from their vision.

这包括来自他们自己！我们中的许多人都会因自我批评或他人的负面反馈而脱轨。例如，据报道，托马斯·爱迪生 （Thomas Edison） 在发明灯泡之前处理了 2,000 多个失败的原型。我认为可以公平地说，大多数人都会放弃。几乎每个人都确信航空旅行和后来的太空旅行在科学上是不可能的，直到有远见的人证明他们错了。许多其他发明家、科学家和艺术家也是如此。他们不会让自我怀疑或外部批评动摇他们的愿景。

The only barriers to living a creative life are self-imposed. Perhaps not surprisingly, children tend to demonstrate more imaginative play and creativity, although this does not always remain intact as they age. I encourage you to consider the above as guidelines. If you have the urge to quit, try to stay the course. If you are critical of your own ideas, try journaling away the doubts before you sit down to write or paint or create. Finally, never give up on the dream of becoming creative.

过上创造性生活的唯一障碍是自我强加的。也许不足为奇的是，孩子们往往表现出更有想象力的游戏和创造力，尽管随着年龄的增长，这并不总是保持不变。我鼓励您将上述内容视为指导方针。如果你有放弃的冲动，试着坚持到底。如果你对自己的想法持批评态度，试着在坐下来写作、绘画或创作之前把疑虑写下来。最后，永远不要放弃成为创意的梦想。

Remember, not everyone will become a best-selling author or invent new technology that will change the world. Still, some of you may, just like Edison or Warhol. The others can create for their own enjoyment or for their friends and family. This can be enormously rewarding in and of itself!

请记住，并非每个人都会成为畅销书作家或发明改变世界的新技术。不过，你们中的一些人可能会，就像爱迪生或沃霍尔一样。其他人可以为自己的乐趣或为他们的朋友和家人创作。这本身就是巨大的回报！