Modularity Insights for Charisma and Creativity

This episode features:


-How to get outside of your head


-Why optimal performance sometimes requires “not trying”


-What are the psychological traps that can make us dull and
uncreative


-A framework for overcoming bias


-Examples of how to correct for the planning fallacy and
confirmation bias


-The phenomenology of creativity


-How do artists reconnect with their creativity when they hit a
roadblock


-What cognitive process leads to great artwork and scientific
discovery


 


Full transcript


 


-References-


Apply Psychology:


Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. London: Penguin
Books.


Nelson, B., & Rawlings, D. (2007). Its own reward: A
phenomenological study of artistic creativity. Journal of
Phenomenological Psychology, 38(2), 217-255.


Ross, M., & Sicoly, F. (1979). Egocentric biases in
availability and attribution. Journal of personality and social
psychology, 37(3), 322.


Thomson, K. S., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2016). Investigating an
alternate form of the cognitive reflection test. Judgment and
Decision Making, 11(1), 99.


Thinking Fast and Slow Wikipedia


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Miller, G. (2009). Spent: Sex, evolution, and consumer behavior.
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