书名：Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention 创造力：心流与创新心理学
作者：Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi米哈里·希斯赞特米哈伊
出版社名称：Harper Perennial
出版时间：2013
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780062283252
商品尺寸：13.5 x 2 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：480 （以实物为准）

米哈里·希斯赞特米哈伊是“心流”理论的提出者，积极心理学奠基人，创造力大师，他的著作包括《创造力》、《心流》和《自我的进化》等畅销书，对积极心理学的发展产生了重大影响。
正是通过“心流”体验，杰出的创新者们才能历经痛苦的准备期、酝酿期之后迎来了灵光一现的“啊哈”时刻，此后他们接受学界的评价和建议，进入精心制作阶段，用99%的汗水浇灌1%的灵感。正是经历这个过程，他们的伟大成果才得以问世。
研究卓越创新者的目的，是从中提炼出令我们每一个人的生活过得更丰富而充盈的有用建议。只要我们能恰当利用这些建议，我们的幸福感就会大大地提高。

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“很少有人的名字可以代表一场运动，代表一个学派，代表一个领域。‘希斯赞特米哈伊’就是具有这种影响力的少数名字之一。” ——彭凯平，清华大学心理学系主任、加州大学伯克利分校心理学系终身教授

“让我们感觉更好、拥有状态的根本方法是向内看……希斯赞特米哈伊的书令人鼓舞，非常值得一读。” ——《芝加哥太阳时报》

“幸福的方法不在于无心的享乐，而在于有心的挑战。” ——《纽约时报书评》
 
“冷漠世界中的一剂幸福良方。” ——《米拉贝拉》杂志

The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author ofFlow
Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (“The leading researcher into ‘flow states.’”— Newsweek) reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the “tortured genius” is largely a myth. Most important, he explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.

Review
“Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too.”  —Library Journal (starred review)

“Accessible and enjoyable reading.”  —Washington Times

Creativity The Psychology of Discovery and Invention《创造力：心流与创新心理学》是“心流之父”、积极心理学大师希斯赞特米哈伊历时30年潜心研究的经典之作。他访谈了包括14位诺贝尔奖得主在内的91名创新者，分析他们的人格特征，以及他们在创新过程中的“心流”体验，总结出创造力产生的运作方式，提出了令每个人的生活变得丰富而充盈的实用建议。
创造力并不是凭空产生，它来自构成系统的三个要素之间的互动。这三个要素分别是：包含符号规则的文化、给某个领域带来创新的人，以及该领域中被认可、能证实创新的专家。对于创造力的观点、产品或发现，这三者都必不可少。
一个人看起来很有个人“创造力”并不能成为决定他是否有创造力的条件，重要的是他创造的新奇事物是否被一个领域所接纳，这也许是机会、毅力或天时地利相结合的结果。
富有创造力的人之间彼此千差万别，但他们有一点是相同的。他们都非常喜欢自己做的事情。他们通过从事费力、有风险且困难的活动扩展自己的能力，从中体会到“心流”（flow）。

米哈里·希斯赞特米哈伊，“心流”理论提出者、积极心理学奠基人、造力大师。美国心理学会前主席马丁·塞利格曼评价他为“世界上伟大的积极心理学研究者”。1970年至1999年担任芝加哥大学心理学系主任，1999年至今任教于美国加州克莱蒙特大学德鲁克管理学院。他的著作包括《创造力》、《心流》和《自我的进化》等畅销书，对积极心理学的发展产生了重大影响。他在专业期刊上发表了200多篇论文，并为《纽约时报》《纽约客》《大西洋月刊》撰写了多篇文章。
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a professor at Claremont Graduate University and former chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. His previous books includeThe Evolving Selfand the national bestsellerFlow.

This book is about creativity, based on histories of contemporary people who know about it firsthand. It starts with a description of what creativity is, it reviews the way creative people work and live, and it ends with ideas about how to make your life more like that of the creative exemplars I studied. There are no simple solutions in these pages and a few unfamiliar ideas. The real story of creativity is more difficult and strange than many overly optimistic accounts have claimed. For one thing, as I will try to show, an idea or product that deserves the label “creative” arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person. It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment than by trying to make people think more creatively. And a genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a lightbulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives for several reasons. Here I want to mention only the two main ones. First, most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity. We share 98 percent of our genetic makeup with chimpanzees. What makes us different—our language, values, artistic expression, scientific understanding, and technology—is the result of individual ingenuity that was recognized, rewarded, and transmitted through learning. Without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.
The second reason creativity is so fascinating is that when we are involved iii it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. The excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab comes close to the ideal fulfillment we all hope to get from life, and so rarely do. Perhaps only sex, sports, music, and religious ecstasy—even when these experiences remain fleeting and leave no trace—provide as profound a sense of being part of an entity greater than ourselves. But creativity also leaves an outcome that adds to the richness and complexity of the future.
An excerpt from one of the interviews on which this book is based may give a concrete idea of the joy involved in the creative endeavor, as well as the risks and hardships involved. The speaker is Vera Rubin, an astronomer who has contributed greatly to our knowledge about the dynamics of galaxies. She describes her recent discovery that stars belonging to a galaxy do not all rotate in the same direction; the orbits can circle either clockwise or counterclockwise on the same galactic plane. As is the case with many discoveries, this one was not planned. It was the result of an accidental observation of two pictures of the spectral analysis of the same galaxy obtained a year apart. By comparing the faint spectral lines indicating the positions of stars in the two pictures, Rubin noted that sonic had moved in one direction during the interval of time, and others had moved in the opposite direction.