One of the many paradoxes of human creativity is that it seems to benefit from constraints. Although we [perceive] the imagination as requiring total freedom, the reality of the creative process is that it’s often entangled with strict conventions and formal requirements. Pop songs have choruses and refrains; symphonies have four movements; plays have five acts; painters still rely on the tropes of portraiture. Jonah Lehrer Constraints can seem like the last thing you’d want for a creativ...
