Learn Secrets of the Creative Mind at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO Thursday Evening

By on January 19, 2016 10:13 pm in Arts and Entertainment, DUMBO, Events, Literature, Neighborhoods

This Thursday evening, January 21, from 7:00 to 9:00, co-authors Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire will be at Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main street, at Water Street, in DUMBO, for a launch and discussion of their new book, Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind. Kaufman is also author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, serves as scientific director of the Imagination Institute, and is an advisor to The Future Project.

The event is free. There are more details and you can RSVP here.

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  • Solovely

    More on Scott,

    “Students need to know that they are a whole being, full of many potentialities, and there’s a heck of a lot good within that can be nurtured and expressed.

    I’m honored that my interview about these pressing issues is on the front page of the Penn Current today. Here’s the Q & A, where we cover a range of topics, including my experience teaching positive psychology (one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever done!), the impact of labeling, theories of intelligence, the development of creativity, and educational structures that can support the best in everyone.

    Source:
    http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2016-01-21/interviews/qa-scott-barry-kaufman

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Just want to say that I appreciate the use of “potentialities” and “heck” in the same sentence.

  • Solovely

    Ha! the opening quote in Scott’s book from another wordsmith,

    “The creative genius may be at once naïve and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. (S)He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.
    – Frank X. Barron, Psychologist and Creativity Researcher” 1922-2002

    Enjoy the snow!
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