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Ideas and resources for understanding and increasing creativity
If you are looking for an interesting and thoughtful blog on a variety of topics, be sure to take a look at Presentation Zen, by Garr Reynolds. While his main topic is professional presentation design, Reynolds manages to weave in information and discussion about a host of important and current issues, such as his empathic piece …
Being able to change perspective and direction, even and perhaps especially when the stakes are high, is one of the hallmarks of creative thought.
An excerpt from a longer piece I’m working on (and the first of two posts today): I learn so much from teaching creative thinking and from the students. Something that is striking me these days is that the most important, the most potentially life-changing part of adding creativity to one’s life has nothing to do …
Although we might like to think that we do our best creative work when time is tight, research indicates that “the more time pressure people feel on a given day, the less likely they will be to think creatively.”
“[B]y changing the frame, you radically change the range of possibilities.” ~ Tina Seelig, InGenius Today marks the 45th anniversary of a view of Earth that changed forever how we think about our home planet. The year was 1968, and the world had just gone through twelve months of extreme unrest—the Tet Offensive, assassinations of Martin …