27th Feb 2009
Creative contradictions
"Janusian thinking" , named after a Roman god with two faces, each looking in opposite directions, is the ability to simultaneously imagine or hold in mind two opposite or contradictory ideas, concepts or images. Geniuses including Einstein, Mozart, Edison, van Gogh, Pasteur, Joseph Conrad and Picasso all used this ability to arrive at original insights. (more…)
"Janusian thinking" , named after a Roman god with two faces, each looking in opposite directions, is the ability to simultaneously imagine or hold in mind two opposite or contradictory ideas, concepts or images. Geniuses including Einstein, Mozart, Edison, van Gogh, Pasteur, Joseph Conrad and Picasso all used this ability to arrive at original insights. (more…)
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