Signpost on Creative Sparks

Welcome to Signposts.
This series gathers links and notes on the articles, podcast episodes mentioned, ideas, and people worth knowing about.

This post accompanies Curiosity Files #6 – What Comes Before the Ah-Ha moment.

In Curiosity File #6 I talked about all the different ways we can find inspiration and explored the science behind why each either creates the right conditions to fire our imaginations or the mechanisms which allow creativity to flourish. If you missed it you can go back to read it here.

Podcast episodes mentioned

The Creative Switch - Lorna Gibson

The Creative Switch - Emma Baylin

Seasons and Nature

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unserious-psychology/202306/how-the-seasons-affect-our-psychology/

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051474

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/creative-insights/202211/how-exposure-nature-influences-creativity

https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/articles/feeling-more-creative-in-nature--it-might-just-be-a-feeling

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225023272

Travel and Cultures

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creative-insights/202507/how-travel-can-spark-your-creativity

https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0003-066X.63.3.169

Intergenerational Connection

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11689743/

Incubation

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00215/full

Anthropology of story telling

https://www.academia.edu/10607712/The_anthropology_of_storytelling_and_the_storytelling_of_anthropology/

In-Person Connection

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04643-y

Books

The Creative Nudge. Kevin Chesters and Mick Mahoney. Quercus Books

If you missed the full post for Curiosity File #6 you can read it here.