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Mihaly Csikszentamihalyi believes that creative people thrive because of positive experiences. I think Dr. Gould would agree. He suggests figuring out what you are good at and running with it!

Gould explains, “The lesson here is to find your talent by looking in all the obvious places, at the things you do well and take for granted” (p. 15).
Amrith has a B.A. and a Ph.D. so he must have thrived in school at some point to gain enough confidence and experience to even be a Ph.D. candidate. Through hours, days, weeks, months, and then years of academic practice, Amrith is able to contribute to the field!

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Robert Sternberg explains that creative people must defy the crowd and believe that what they are doing is worthwhile. I think he would agree that Amrith defied the crowd of historians who have so heavily focused on European and American history and showed them that South Asia is important, too!

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Rothenberg suggested that we can consciously transcend ordinary logic by forcing ourselves to imagine that two opposite things are simultaneously true.

I think that Amrith's starting point in his studies aligns with the idea that Rothenberg suggests... and maybe that even motivated Amrith to dive even deeper...

How could movement and migration around the Bay of Bengal be "omnipresent, vital, and important" (S.A.) but so under-studied? Did this inspire Amrith to do something about it?

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Sunil Amrith is a historian exploring migration in South and Southeast Asia and its role in shaping present-day social and cultural dynamics. His focus on migration, rather than political forces such as colonial empires and the formation of modern nations, demonstrates that South Asia (primarily India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia (including Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore) are tied by centuries of movement of people and goods around and across the Bay of Bengal.