Ringmar, Erik Ivarİnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü2020-05-212020-05-212019Ringmar, E. (2019). Heidegger on creativity: From boredom to re-engagement with the world. J. R. Velasco (Ed.), Boredom Is in Your Mind: A Shared Psychological-Philosophical Approach içinde (111-121. ss.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.9.78E+12https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26395-9_7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/1153Experimental psychologists have discussed whether boredom can help us become more creative. At ?rst blush, this would seem to be rather unlikely. When we are bored, we are disengaged; we cannot be bothered and nothing seems worthwhile; we have no interest in the world around us. Such a condition, surely, is not conducive to creativity (Haager et al. 2018). Yet some psychologists disagree (Gasper and Middlewood 2014). Boredom, they explain, breaks down entrenched routines and thought-patterns and provides us with an opportunity to think again and anew. Respondents in “approach-oriented states” such as boredom engage in more “associative thought” than those in “avoidance-oriented affective states.” This is how boredom comes to encourage “the quest for meaning and exploration” (Gasper and Middlewood 2014, pp. 53–55...eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessHeideggerCreativityBoredomRe-engagementWorldBook Chapter11112110.1007/978-3-030-26395-9_72-s2.0-85084407891N/A