Signpost on Spaciousness

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Today’s post accompanies Curiosity Files #3 – A Question of Spaciousness. The references are grouped by the topics and guest insights mentioned in the essay.

Curiosity File #3 explored the question of how spaciousness might shape creative living. It covers lived experiences, our inner thoughts, attention, environment and cultural understanding. This companion post collects the references used, by concepts grouped under those headings.

How Rebecca Lacey Turns Collaboration Into Creative Courage - The Creative Switch

How Xenia Davis Created Space for Creativity And Why You Can Too - The Creative Switch

The Hidden Cost of Not Starting Over: 3 Hard Truths from a Surgeon-Turned-Creative - The Creative Switch

A Kitchen Makeover, a Blank Canvas and No Regrets: Mike Hall’s Transition from Marketing to Bespoke Artistry - The Creative Switch

Ep 6: Switching full time to being an Author with Sarah Nisha Adams, The When, the How and the Why - The Creative Switch

Finding Balance: Juggling Creativity and Work with Nina Lenton - The Creative Switch

Scores, Sketches, & Stories: Self-Redesign with Hannah Ashe - The Creative Switch

Richard Tyler on Embracing Creativity and Overcoming Adversity - The Creative Switch

Curiosity File #1 - Which 6 Pillars Help us Build a Creative life?

Chez Hanny | Hannah Ashe | Substack

Anatomy of a Decision by Louise Morris | Substack

LiveStack | LiveStack - Lou | Substack

The Space Between the Notes - by Richard Tyler | Substack

Creative Weirdness - Nina Lenton

Default Mode Network

https://neurosciencenews.com/creativity-dmn-neuroscience-26436/

https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/147/10/3409/7695856/

Incubation and Sleep

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/41/10/zsy155/5065174/

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/monaghan/papers/sio_monaghan_ormerod_12_memcog.pdf/

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.645110/full

Boredom

https://www.smithamevents.com.au/neuroscientist-explains-how-boredom-can-boost-creativity-focus-and-your-best-ideas/

Does Being Bored Make Us More Creative?: Creativity Research Journal: Vol 26 , No 2 - Get Access

Attention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/philosophies-in-psychology/202411/the-psychology-of-attention-lessons-from-simone-weil

https://lithub.com/simone-weils-radical-conception-of-attention/

Meditative Thinking

https://philonotes.com/2023/04/two-modes-of-thinking-in-heidegger-calculative-and-meditative-thinking

https://pdx.pressbooks.pub/navigatingspace/chapter/part-two-heideggers-meditative-thinking/

Daoism Wu-Wei and Ziran

https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/taoism-and-creativity-unlocking-your-inner-artist-with-taoist-practices

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism/

The Dao of Doing Nothing - Rev Deb Connor

Alan Watts - https://www.organism.earth/library/search?s=ziran

Clutter

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chaos-creativity-science-behind-messy-desk-nick-gaunt-ph-d--hmu8e/

https://brainhealthuniversity.com/brain-health-insights/the-cognitive-cost-of-clutter-does-a-messy-room-muffle-mental-clarity/

Creative environments

Exploring the Landscape of Cognitive Load in Creative Thinking: a Systematic Literature Review | Educational Psychology Review | Springer Nature Link

The Impact of Physical Learning Environments on Creativity in Educational Settings: A Systematic Review - Iran University of Science & Technology

Flow

https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/

Liminality

https://gettherapybirmingham.com/the-anthropology-of-victor-turner-ritual-liminality-and-cultural-performance/

https://www.azquotes.com/author/35861-Victor_Turner

https://www.si.edu/stories/lunar-new-year/

Five Institute – Your Vital Life in a Kind and Sustainable World

https://fiveinstitute.com/year-of-the-fire-horse/

Discourse on Thinking - Martin Heidegger on calculative and meditative thinking. (MJP Publishers, 2022)

If you missed the full post for Curiosity File #3 you can read it here.