I received a Kraft Thinsations® sample this morning on the subway. 100 calories!! The ingredients: enriched white flour, sugar, soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed oil, fudge coating (sugar, palm kernel and palm oils, modified milk ingredients, cocoa, soya lecithin, flavour), semi-sweet chocolate chips (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, flavour), dextrose, ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium […]
Month: September 2010
New ideas rejected due to time-zone lag, a quick fix.
Have you ever experienced jet lag? Jet lag occurs because your body’s cycle, it’s circadian rhythm, is thrown off course. You experience daylight and darkness at different times than what you are used to and this disrupts your natural times for eating, sleeping, hormone regulation and body temperature variations. Your body is out of alignment […]
Some snippets about the brain… and how we're using it
Related Articles This Is Your Brain, This Is Your Brain On Internet (techcrunch.com) Loved this video – made the covert (what I’m unaware of) overt (obvious). No wonder times are so different now than before. Staying Sharp: The Surprising Power of the Aging Brain (time.com) Seems old dogs can learn new tricks…“More and more, neurologists […]
Creativity. What's it all about?
Creativity is good, does that mean that non-creativity is bad? When is it appropriate to use new ideas and new decisions and when is it best to stay with the same-old, same-old? Have you answered those questions for yourself yet? There are many viewpoints on the subject of appropriateness for using creativity deliberately, just as […]
Creativity Professionals: What's our limit?
After viewing the clip below, I started to wonder if Creativity Professionals have a duty to influence clients’ decision making with regards to the new ideas they choose from which to create new futures. If creativity is about using new ideas to make new decisions, and, its base comes from our innate human character to […]
Imagination Triggers
Einstein’s most often quote “imagination is more important than knowledge” is partially true. Both are important at different times as appropriate. Balance is good. I didn’t know what imagination was when growing up, I’d ask what it is and teachers would say, just pretend. “Pretend what?” I’d reply. So, I did some research and found […]
Are these powerful questions powerful for you?
While cleaning out file drawer today I found a non referenced handout from a conference a few years ago, Powerful Questions. According to the tiny description on the green sheet, the purpose of these questions is to stimulate new knowledge and creative thinking. They don’t work so much for me. It’s hard for me to […]
