Claremont Graduate University Professor of Psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote the Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. I have not been able to pronounce his name until tonight when I found out that you say it something like "chick-sent-me-high." Actually I found this pronunciation more than one place, just so you know that I do not use sexist language from the Sixties, despite my hippie roots.
I’m in by the San Fransisco Bay tonight at Saybrook Graduate School’s national conference. I’ve been stuck the last few months working on my Ph.D. dissertation on the subject of creativity and writing. According to the Ten Secrets of Creativity‘s Secret No.2:
There are cycles of creativity. Just as there are seasons in a year and cycles in preparing, planting, nurturing, waiting and harvesting there are creative cycles. We are not always in the harvesting phase. We do go through the dormant cycles of winter that feel as though nothing is happening. We complete the cycle and move into the planting and harvesting phases.
This explains how I have written exactly four pages on the subject of creativity and writing in a hundred hours. Must be the ice age of writing.
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