“Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. It’s your power to create mental pictures of things that don’t exist yet and that you want to bring into being. It’s the magic wand you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions […]
Month: November 2011
Why people don’t give new ideas. Dilbert.
I love this this Dilbert comic. So true.
The Story of Broke – Annie Leonard’s new film
Filmmaker Annie Leonard, of Story of Stuff.org just released her newest film – the Story of Broke (2011) showing how the US economy is broken and that there is enough money for things to work. Sit back and watch. It’s refreshing and thought-provoking. You may feel inspired to have a creative idea or make new […]
Creative Problem Solving: How the Creative Education Foundation explains it
“Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is a proven method for approaching a problem or a challenge in an imaginative and innovative way. It’s a tool that helps people re-define the problems they face, come up with breakthrough ideas and then take action on these new ideas.” http://creativeeducationfoundation.org/our-process/what-is-cps See how the place where brainstorming began, the Creative […]
Creative thinking techniques: New link, nice collection.
Want to update your reference links for creativity tools, methods and techniques? Here’s a nice collection. http://www.squidoo.com/creative-techniques#module48231882 Related articles The No. 1 Reason We Don’t Think Creatively (businessinsider.com) Does Education Stifle Creativity? (psychologytoday.com)
Is enriching the business ecosystem the metric for the future? General Electric HealthyImagination in Forbes.
“GE’s healthymagination project is setting the pace for cancer care as well as defining what it means to be a social business. Back in September GE announced it would spend $1billion on cancer-related R&D over the next five years. The $100 million healthyimagination challenge is a part of that – essentially a crowdsourcing platform to […]
What’s the best question you ever asked?
Just wondering. I’m speaking at conference of Personality Dimensions users this afternoon and thinking about opening my session with one of these questions. I’m not sure how they might show the differences in creativity from a styles perspective, they might. What’s the best question you’ve ever been asked to respond to? What’s the best question […]
Physical Act of Creativity. Moving helps. Research.
Highlights from new research on body movement and creativity Divergent thinking goals are: to generate many different kinds of ideas, to generate many ideas and to generate brand new ideas (there are tools for these). Greater success occurs in divergent thinking when two hands are used (as in the phrase, on the other hand…) Convergent […]
29 Ways to Keep Your Creativity Alive
29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU on Vimeo. This quick two-minute video by To-Fu Motion Graphics gives you 29 ways to get unstuck and keep your creativity going. What would you like to add? What gets you going when your inspiration is lacking?
