Constraints and Creativity
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is famous for defining and <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/disseminative" target="_blank">disseminating</a> the idea of ‘flow.’ But some of his less famous work involves the study of <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/creativity" target="_blank">creativity</a>. In one experiment, Csikszentmihalyi worked with art students at the University of Chicago. He asked all of the students to paint something, but half of them were forced to paint around a pre-existing mark on the canvas. The rest had complete freedom.