In 1964 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jacob Getzels gave 31 art students an hour each to sketch a still life chosen from the same 27 objects, among them a bunch of grapes, a steel gearshift, an antique book and a glass prism. About half picked quickly and spent the hour developing an idea they already had; the other half kept exploring, rearranging and restarting, some for as long as 50 minutes, and it was those problem-finders rather than the problem-solvers who turned out to make the more compelling artists.
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