How to Use the Psychology of Space to Boost Your Creativity
If you’re a creative professional or artist who works at home either full- or part-time, you enjoy at least one immediate advantage over your office-bound peers: People generate more ideas for novel and useful solutions to creative problems when they’re at home than in any other single environment. Want to make your home an even more effective idea incubator? Apply what scientists in the field of environmental psychology have learned about the effects of space on creative thinking to your home office.
Creativity Training Seminar: Creative Innovation - Out-of-the-Box Thinking Seminar
Creative Innovation Out-of-the-Box Thinking To solve any problem in today's fast-changing global marketplace, organizations need people who aren't "boxed-in" by traditional modes of thinking and who can approach situations with innovative solutions. Today's organizations are seeking to break out of the so-called bureaucracy box, develop effective communications, enlighten their leadership, and rebuild loyalty. This creativity seminar explores the qualities and practices necessary to really make breakthroughs in an era of rapidly changing technology and expanding information. You will examine successful organizations that have created cultures where individuals grow and develop skills for high achievement.
15 Cool Ways To Boost Your Creativity
Feeling burnt out or lacking creative ideas? This article is especially for all you writers, artists, business owners or anyone looking for some new ways to get their creativity flowing. Here are 15 ways to give your creativity a jump start:
The (lack of) science behind happiness and creativity — Quartz
Corporations intent on making employees more engaged and creative are focusing on happiness as the answer. Chief Happiness Officer is an actual job at many companies. But most scientists say that creativity calls on persistence and problem-solving skills, not positivity. Computational scientist Anna Jordanous at Kent University and linguist Bill Keller of Sussex University in England dug through through over half century of study on the creative process in various fields, and isolated 14 components of creativity. Happiness wasn’t one of them. Creativity is complex.
Your Brain on Creativity
To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing, Your Inner Critic Must Hush Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in.
Second-Level Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform
“Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted.” Howard Marks Successful decision making requires thoughtful attention to many separate aspects. Decision making is as much art as science. The goal, if we have one, is not to make perfect decisions but rather to make better decisions than average.
Monday’s medical myth: the right side of your brain controls creativity
Are you suffering a creativity problem? Well, pop psychology claims your “right brain” holds the key. Whether you want to drop a few kilos, improve your profits, spice up your sex life, or take over the world, we’re encouraged to believe a right-brain approach will solve our problems. Just look at some of these self-help titles (I wish I were making them up): The right brain/creativity link first captured the public imagination in 1979 when Betty Edwards published the worldwide bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Edwards argued that by switching from the traditional left-brain mode (logical, verbal, symbolic) to a right-brain mode (creative, non-verbal, non-symbolic), even those who “can’t draw” will uncover their inner artist.
Brainstorming Doesn't Work; Try This Technique Instead
Evan Rosenbaum was 2 years old when his father brought home the Power Macintosh 7100. This was 1994, and the 7100, a new personal computer from Apple, was a hefty gray console, hardly anything to look at. (It would be three years before Steve Jobs fatefully met the designer Jony Ive.) Nevertheless, the computer was cutting edge at the time, and Rosenbaum’s father, Howard, an accountant with entrepreneurial aspirations, unboxed it with delight. He installed it in the wood-paneled den overlooking the backyard of his Long Island home. "I just remember how excited he was, setting it up, seeing what it could do," Rosenbaum says.
The Creativity of the Sleeping Brain
Sleep, as ancient maps once labeled uncharted territories, is where the dragons be. The human brain is a loud and messy and stormy place. We spend our days in a sensory typhoon, buffeted by sights and sounds and experiences, and all that time the brain's prefrontal cortex keeps order: focus here, tend to that, ignore the rest.
Warren Berger's Three-Part Method for More Creativity
“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”— Charles “Boss” Kettering The whole scientific method is built on a very simple structure: If I do this, then what will happen? That’s the basic question on which more complicated, intricate, and targeted lines of inquiry are built, across a wide variety of subjects. This simple form helps us push deeper and deeper into knowledge of the world. (On a sidenote, science has become such a loaded, political word that this basic truth of how it works frequently seems to be lost!)
Color My World: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
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