Focus
How Do You Tap Into Creativity?
Mindful readers share what inspires them and how they bring their creative ideas to life.
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Audio
A Guided Practice to Notice What’s Present—and What Isn’t
In the spaces between objects, people, sounds, and time, we can find definition, potential, and meaning. Authors Chris Willard and Olivia Weisser offer a mindfulness practice to explore what we often don’t focus on.
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Being Bored is A Gift: Here’s How to Use It
Founding editor Barry Boyce speaks with Stephanie Domet about how adding curiosity to moments of boredom improves the quality of your perception.
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The Brain Goes into “Repair Mode” When People Think We’re Not Competent
What if we rethought the drive to succeed, to be competent, as a basic need for our brains? Dr. Michael Gervais speaks with psychologist and science writer Scott Barry Kaufman on what drives creative—and possibly intellectual—leaps.
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Focus
How Creativity Frees the Mind
Hugh Delehanty embarks on a creativity and mindfulness retreat, where he discovers that the key to being creative is to strip away all but the essentials of who and what you are.
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Calm
4 Rituals of Highly Creative People
Four successful artists demystify the creative process.
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Does Meditation Boost Creativity?
Research shows that some key elements of meditation stimulate creativity, and others may not.
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The Mindful Survey: Your Inner Artist
Highlights from our reader survey on creativity.
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Calm
Doing Something Creative Can Boost Your Well-Being
A new study suggests that small acts of creativity in everyday life increase our overall sense of well-being.
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How to Apply Mindfulness to the Creative Process
The key to optimizing the creative process is balancing the brain networks.
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