last highlighted date: 2023-05-14

Highlights

  • Teresa Amabile, a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and the author of Growing Up Creative and The Progress Principle , talked to us about how to foster creativity . Here are a few highlights:
  • Feeling that you’re being watched while you’re working. Feeling that you’re competing with other people. Working for reward—feeling that you’re doing something to get money or a grade—can decrease intrinsic interest in doing something.
    • Note: what makes you less creative