Everyone recognizes the importance of creative breakthroughs, but it continues to be a misunderstood phenomenon. Our need for creativity and insight a

Creative Breakthroughs and Insights — Busting Common Myths and How to Get Better at It

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2023-06-04 16:30:25

Everyone recognizes the importance of creative breakthroughs, but it continues to be a misunderstood phenomenon. Our need for creativity and insight also means a profusion of perpetrators promising easy solutions, and plenty of misconceptions.

How do we increase the likelihood of insights? What can we do, or stop doing, to get better at it? What does research point to?

Insights and epiphanies are the moment when everything just “clicks” together, and we suddenly see the solution that’s been staring at us all along. Now that we’ve “seen” it, the world looks very different.

The very nature of insight means we cannot go about it formulaically, although that’s what some folks will try to sell you. What helps is to understand overarching patterns.

The process might not be repeatable, but knowing what's entailed increases the likelihood of staying with it, instead of getting frustrated and quitting prematurely. Knowing that hitting a wall is part of the game somehow helps.