Not long ago, Teresa Amabile revealed in an <a href="HBR blog post that while she had spent much of her career as a research psychologist showing how constraints can undermine creativity, she had discovered that the right sort of constraints can in fact “stoke the innovation fire.”
How Intelligent Constraints Drive Creativity
Research shows that obstacles boost your brainpower.
January 30, 2013
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