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more on creativity and "mental health"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 3:44pm.

From a recent senior thesis

"The nature of creativity itself demonstrates that insanity and sanity, and deviance and conformity, are not mutually-exclusive but rather complementary to each other ... they may co-exist within a single person with often unexpected and constructive results .... Creativity will be encouraged in any social setting that successfully accomplishes the balancing act between adherence to accepted thought and acceptance of radical new thought ... Any society will be fertile ground for creativity, if it is capable of retaining some of the rigidity of ice while being able to see that the turbulence of water complements rather than contradicts that rigidity."

 

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