Sometimes I’m amazed how fluid my thoughts are for spontaneous ideas. Before the hostile takeover of my home/businesses, I woke up every day with some solution or new concept to implement in my wonderful work establishment. A year after my forced evacuation, finally gained the momentum to reconnect with the creative part of my mind. My brain was bombed … More Brain Bridge Boost
Innovation is the application of creativity to give rise to a new concept, product, service or process delivering something new and better to the world. When we innovate, we work with the creative ideas we have developed and put them into practice. Innovation is NOT just about making new gadgets and fancy widgets. We can … More What is Innovation?
Innovation relies on creativity. You can not innovate without first developing some ideas. Creativity is the source of innovation. If we do not use our creativity to develop a range of ideas and potential solutions, we can not select the most promising ideas and put them into practice. Every improvement at work starts with an … More Creativity vs Innovation
Creativity is the capacity within individuals to develop ideas for the purpose of solving problems and exploiting opportunities. It is important to define creativity because it can mean a lot of different things to different people. Creativity is not art, it is not design and it most certainly is not the sole preserve of tortured … More What is Creativity?
This summer I did a “reboot” for my brain. My mind had been bombarded for years with poison darts and digs to my spirit. Now, my brain has been boosted. Many people fit in the box. Some people feel boxed-in. A few people think outside-the-box. I think about boxes. I build boxes. I just … More Discover by Design
As creative people, we feel safe when we are in our studios diligently designing our next new project or practicing for an upcoming performance. We balance being alone by meeting with like minds in galleries, concerts, libraries, dance halls, theaters. We need to allow our minds the freedom from daily clutter of concerns. When we do, we find ourselves in … More Introvert and Inspiration
Promoting intrinsic motivation and problem solving are two areas where educators can foster creativity in students. Students are more creative when they see a task as intrinsically motivating, valued for its own sake. To promote creative thinking, educators need to identify what motivates their students and structure teaching around it. Providing students with a choice … More Fostering Creativity #2
The conventional system of schooling is sometimes seen as “stifling” of creativity. The pre-school, kindergarten and early school years are often the only ages where there is an attempt to provide a creativity-friendly, rich, imagination-fostering environment for young children. Researchers see the importance of fostering creativity because technology is advancing our society at an unprecedented … More Fostering Creativity #1
People who are serious about exploring their creative side develop and practice various methods of capturing new ideas. Artists carry sketchpads. Writers and advertisers carry notepads or pocket computers. Inventors make notes on napkins and candy-bar wrappers – especially inventors of new foods! With new creative abilities people are also better able to solve even … More Capture Creativity #2
Creativity requires a challenge to start a flow of new ideas, then a way to capture them. New ideas are fleeting. You need to write them down quickly or they can be gone in a flash. Sometimes, a catchy title for an article, a name brand, a melody, a food recipe, a room arrangement pops … More Capture Creativity #1
Everyone has creative abilities that operate all the time. You can enhance your creativity by surrounding yourself with diverse stimuli that is changed regularly. Diverse and changing stimuli promote creativity because they get multiple behaviors competing with each other. To boost your creative output, capture your new ideas as they occur, challenge yourself in order … More Challenge Creativity
As a practical matter, the right-hemisphere myth is a little nonsense because virtually no one has a split brain. The two halves of our brain are connected by an immense structure called the corpus callosum, and the hemispheres also communicate through the sense organs. Creativity has no precise location in the human brain. Creativity, in short, … More Corpus Callosum Creativity
Salvador Dali, the great surrealist, used to grab ideas for paintings from the very fertile semi-sleep state we call the hypnagogic state. He’d lie on a sofa and hold a spoon in one hand, balancing it on the edge of a glass placed on the floor. Just as he’d drift off to sleep, he’d release … More aMUSE yourself
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