What makes a creative genius?

Marina Winkler
Science of Minds
Published in
7 min readDec 22, 2018

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Train your ability to develop valuable ideas.

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Does this sound familiar to you? You are sitting in a brainstorming meeting or in front of a blank screen, and no ideas show up, not even a single one.

Your head feels empty, and the long-awaited creative spark does not materialize.

You may blame it on the too generously heated room or its daunting lack of oxygen, or on the fact that it’s been too long since your last caffeine intake.

Maybe it’s just the usual lunch down or your co-worker’s annoying cynicism that keeps your brain from developing meaningful or notable ideas.

At that moment, you might consider yourself the most uncreative person on this planet.

The Kiss of the Muse by Paul Cézanne [Public domain, Source: Wikiart]

You may be convinced that brilliant creative ideas only come to creative geniuses (like Plato, da Vinci, Dante, Mozart, Shakespeare, Stravinsky, Dostoevsky, Einstein, Jung or Picasso) as…

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Marina Winkler
Science of Minds

Neuroscience PhD candidate, psychologist in private practice and lecturer in biopsychology.