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Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein are co-authors of Sparks of Genius, The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People (Houghton Mifflin, 1999). See full bio

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Arts and Crafts: Keys to Scientific Creativity

Over the course of a career, what makes one scientist more successful than another? The Scientist Project, a longitudinal study of a diverse set of scientists, revealed an unsuspected secret: arts and crafts hobbies.
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Terrific Post!

Robert and Michele,

I loved this post! Keep up the fine work.

Sincerely,
Scott

Arts, science and innovation

Just found your wonderful blog thanks to Alyson Stanfield (ArtBizBlog) and posted a link and quote on the blog for our new book: New World Kids, the Parents' Guide to Creative Thinking. Our work with kids certainly connects and I'd love to send you a copy to review.

Arts, science and innovation

Just found your wonderful blog thanks to Alyson Stanfield (ArtBizBlog) and posted a link and quote on the blog for our new book: New World Kids, the Parents' Guide to Creative Thinking. Our work with kids certainly connects and I'd love to send you a copy to review.

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Dear Susie Monday: we'd be happy to look at your book. You can send it to Bob Root-Bernstein at 2174 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building, Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. Thanks! We look forward to it!

I think you hit the nail on the head

Imagination and creativity have many benefits to all. I have lived all my life with mental illness and the one thing that truly gives me peace for periods of time is art. I love to create, in fact have always been driven to do it in one form or another. An injury to my spine robbed me of it for many years and when computers evolved enough that they were functional enough to do art with, I once again took to my favorite passion.

An article I wrote a couple of weeks ago are along the lines of this topic though more from my perspective as an artist - Art and Science Walk Together on the Path of Enlightenment - http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3848051-art-and-science-walk-t...

Stupendous

Great post! I'm drawing much from it...plumbing where seemingly separate fields have areas that cross or patterns that match seems to be a way to work to keep bringing understanding to three dimensions. Sometime in the past year or two I've shifted synthesis & understanding to be something that i aim for every day. ..Posted several times on Synthesis (indeed have a 'synthesizing' post tag...awk) - one of which on Daniel Tammet's idea of Hyper-Connectivity - http://comedyconjectures.blogspot.com/2009/05/hyper-connectivity.html .

Fascinating topics you explore and study! I'm glad you can share the journey with each other.

Best,

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