{"id":2700,"date":"2025-09-26T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:06:23","slug":"5-ways-solitude-can-spark-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/2025\/5-ways-solitude-can-spark-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"New article posted in Psychology Today by Dr. Robert Coplan entitled, &#8220;Making It Alone: 5 Ways Solitude Can Spark Creativity&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"new-article-posted-in-psychology-today-by-dr-robert-coplan-entitled-making-it-alone-5-ways-solitude-can-spark-creativity\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">New article posted in Psychology Today by <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/robert-coplan\/\">Dr. Robert Coplan<\/a> <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> entitled, \u201cMaking It Alone: 5 Ways Solitude Can Spark Creativity\u201d.<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychologists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1468-5914.00204\">Christopher Long and James Averill<\/a>&nbsp;once described the longstanding connection between solitude and&nbsp;<a class=\"basics-link\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at creativity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/creativity\" hreflang=\"en\">creativity<\/a>&nbsp;as \u201cso ubiquitous that it has become almost a clich\u00e9: the scientist alone in a laboratory, the writer in a cabin in the woods, or the painter in a bare studio\u201d. But how does solitude bolster&nbsp;<a class=\"basics-link\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at imagination\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/imagination\" hreflang=\"en\">imagination<\/a>, unlock ingenuity, and foster inspiration? According to psychological research, here are five ways that solitude really can spark creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-joy-of-solitude\/202509\/making-it-alone-5-ways-solitude-can-spark-creativity\">Click here to read more!<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New article posted in Psychology Today by Dr. Robert Coplan entitled, \u201cMaking It Alone: 5 Ways Solitude Can Spark Creativity\u201d. Psychologists&nbsp;Christopher Long and James Averill&nbsp;once described the longstanding connection between solitude and&nbsp;creativity&nbsp;as \u201cso ubiquitous that it has become almost a clich\u00e9: the scientist alone in a laboratory, the writer in a cabin in the woods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}