Readers of Susan Cain''s Quiet and Daniel Pink''s When will appreciate this passionate investigation into creativity and the human brain—from the perspective of an author investigating her own brain after a concussion.
Author and journalist Hilde Østby was cycling to work one day when she crashed head-first into a stone bridge. At the hospital, she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and prescribed rest and relaxation. But her brain was anything but restful: ideas for new writing projects popped into her head at a frenzied pace. Never before had she had so many ''aha'' moments. But at the same time, simple tasks like walking through an airport felt impossible. Had the concussion made her—like the stereotype of the tortured artist—more creative but less able to function in society? Or was there something else at play? What makes a person creative, anyway?
In The Key to Creativity, Østby takes readers on a dee
