11 Quotes by Scott Barry Kaufman

The comparison isn't with others; it's with your former and future selves.

It’s actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self Imaginative people have messier minds.

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.

People with learning goals are all about increasing their skills, whereas those with performance goals are all about winning, and looking smart. Because.

The comparison isn’t with others; it’s with your former and future selves.

Creative people are hubs of diverse interests, influences, behaviors, qualities, and ideas – and through their work, they find a way to bring these many disparate elements together.

The common strands that seemed to transcend all creative fields was an openness to one’s inner life, a preference for complexity and ambiguity, an unusually high tolerance for disorder and disarray, the ability to extract order from chaos, independence, unconventionality, and a willingness to take risks. This.

Writing about a topic that triggers strong emotions for just fifteen to twenty minutes a day has been shown to help people create meaning from their stressful experiences and better express both their positive and negative emotions.