Patricia Stokes || Creativity from Constraints

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m delighted to speak with Patricia Stokes, an adjunct professor at Barnard College who studies problem solving and creativity/innovation. Stokes is author of the book Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough, which was informed by her psychological research as well as her background in art and advertising. In this episode, we cover: – How Patricia went from art and advertising to creativity researcher – The importance of constraints and variability for creativity – How constraints can promote or preclude creativity – Using constraints to solve the “creativity problem” – How “the solution path defines the goal state” – The four major constraints on creativity – How teachers and parents should praise children for optimal creativity – How to reward the courage to be novel – The importance of constraints in fashion and literature – How to explain Lady Gaga’s creativity --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:13.2	I'm Dr. Scott Barikoffman, and in each episode I have a conversation with a guest who
0:17.5	will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and
0:21.8	the world we live in.
0:23.0	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast.
0:27.0	Today I'm really delighted to speak with Patricia Stokes, an adjunct professor at Barnard College
0:39.3	who studies problem solving and creativity and innovation. Stokes is author of the book Creativity from Constraints,
0:45.4	the Psychology of Breakthrough, which was informed by her psychological research as well as her
0:50.0	background in art and advertising. Thanks for chatting with me today so much.
0:53.4	Mr. Chia.
0:54.4	Well, pleasure.
0:55.0	I always like to talk to you, Scott.
0:56.7	Yeah, I was like talking you too.
0:58.4	So, you know, there's just so many kind of starting points
1:01.2	and I thought I would kind of back up before your illustrious
1:04.9	psychology career and kind of talk about your experiences in art school and then you
1:10.6	were in advertising after that, is that right?
1:12.6	I mean, you bring a very fresh perspective to the creativity field.
1:17.0	And so I've always found that it was immediately obvious to me
1:19.8	when I read your book that you're different.
1:21.7	You're different, you know, like you're actually, you're in it, you're in it. in your
1:23.7	in it you're different you know like you're actually you're in it you're in it so yeah so okay
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