Description: some of the latest thinking on innovation, creativity, and mental agility
Finding a different way of construing a situation or event – including taking another perspective on something emotionally difficult – is itself a form of creativity.
Research points to many similarities between our ability to cognitively reappraise emotionally-charged events, and well-established creative processes such as insight and flexible reinterpretation.
Introducing the idea of “reappraisal inventiveness”