Hanging On to Our Creativity
Do you want to know how to be more creative or how to help children to hang on to their creativity? See my latest Psychology Today piece, “Be More Creative Today.”
Creativity
Ideas and resources for understanding and increasing creativity
Wanna Play? Choose your favorite LEGO design
When was the last time you played, really played, as in tuned out the rest of the world and joined your hands and imagination for the sake of nothing more than fun? Earlier this quarter, just before the holiday break, I gave small groups of students in my Creative Thinking class piles of assorted LEGO …
Make a Date with Your Emotions
“Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.” ~ Albert Einstein “The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.” ~ John Keats Have you ever …
Dan Pink: “We are our stories”
“We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell ourselves. That has always been true. But personal narrative has become more prevalent, and perhaps more urgent, in a time of abundance, when many of us are freer to seek a …
Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs, Genius, and Creativity
From the New Yorker, “Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation,” by Malcolm Gladwell: The difference between Bach and his forgotten peers isn’t necessarily that he had a better ratio of hits to misses. The difference is that the mediocre might have a dozen ideas, while Bach, in his lifetime, created more …