Mihalyi Csikzentmihalyi thought everyday creativity was unimportant and professional creativity was important. Exactly the reverse is true.
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Creativity was a later book and I took it as him considering big-C creativity as more important. He says as much early in.
. But fair enough, possibly I am strawmanning Cskizentmihalyi as a convenient big-C-over-small-C creative rep.
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Howard Gardner also sought "capital C" creativity. Admitted that as undergrad, was critiqued as 1 more mediocre mind studying creat'y
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