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Article: Happiness and creativity: going with the flow.(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- The Futurist
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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For many people, happiness comes from creating new things and making discoveries. Enhancing one's creativity may therefore also enhance well-being.
Creative persons differ from one another in a variety of ways, but in one respect they are unanimous: They all love what they do. It is not the hope of achieving fame or making money that drives them; rather, it is the opportunity to do the work that they enjoy doing.
Interviews with engineers and chemists, writers and musicians, historians and architects, sociologists and physicists confirm that they all do what they do primarily because it's fun. Yet many others in the same occupations don't enjoy what they do. ...