There are two main types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation comes from within the task itself, and directly by the value of the benefit from completing it. Extrinsic ...

Amabile, T. M. "Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 48, no. 2 (February 1985): 393–399.

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. In my expositions of ...

The name of my upcoming book, un-kill creativity, was inspired by an article written by Teresa Amabile, Prof. of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School in 1998: “ How to Kill ...

New research shows how hobbies and leisure activities can improve creativity, meaning, and motivation at work.

There is perhaps nothing more painful than a broken heart. It takes a person on an emotional and seemingly endless roller coaster ride. Heartbreak is debilitating. It makes it hard to eat and sleep.

A quick glimpse of the color green appears to get a person's creative juices flowing, suggests a new study. German researchers found that when people glanced at the color green for two seconds before ...

In my expositions of scientific creativity, I have emphasized the strong passions of outstanding scientists Einstein, Darwin, Yukawa. Other scientists in the chosen 45 science Nobel laureate subject ...