After studying scores of great thinkers like Leonardo Da Vinci, I think I've stumbled upon what really set them apart from the rest of the folks living (and thinking) at the same time. It's remarkably simple. They learned how to entertain a thought. Aristotle said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Hmmm. To entertain a thought without accepting it. We need to do that. Everyone needs to learn how to be good host or hostess to new idea More..

Creativity, Innovation, and Science - Separate and Distinct or Not?

There is a pervasive belief that creativity and innovation are separate and distinct from the concept of science. That creativity and innovation cannot be scientific. This is completely false. An event begins to fall into the realms of science when experiments are repeatable and the results reproducible. The myth that creativity occurs out of the blue combines to create the impression that it is impossible to design repeatable experiments that generate reproducible results. One useful definiti More..

Trying to Create From Distorted Perceptions?

We've all met people who are "negative" - negative thinkers who consistently see the glass as half empty. In certain situations, particularly stressful ones, even the most positive person can fall victim to this distorted thinking. As a creative artist, this kind of thinking can keep us away from our art and can keep us from enjoying it even when we manage to keep at it. Distorted Perceptions Seem Real to Us I've recently started performing at a monthly "open mic" event, and it's been a very More..

Creativity and Broken Eggs

In 1420, the dignitaries of Florence held a competition. They offered the enormous prize of 200 gold florins to the architect whose genius could span the unfinished dome of the Florence Cathedral. This was a great challenge. Even the original builders of the cathedral in 1296 left writings hoping that God would offer a solution because they did not have one. Filippo Brunelleschi was the answer to their prayers. He proposed the radical idea of a dome supported by a brick vaulting system that More..

Tips on Breaking the Creative Block

There's no question that creating anything is hard to do. Here are some tips if you find yourself creatively blocked. Set a Goal Set a goal for yourself. For example, it could be to write onepoem, one short story, to paint two small paintings or createthree works of art. Don't make the goal too big. Set a Time Table Give yourself a time when you want your goal to becompleted. There is nothing like a deadline to help you getthings done. You can tell people about the deadline or keepthe inform More..

Computer In The Shop? What Do You Do Now?

Have you ever had one of those days when you just feel like something is missing? - something just doesn't feel right? like you should be doing something but you can't remember what? Well, I had one of those days recently? my computer was in the shop for a minor repair. Ahhhhh! What was I going to do? Ok, so I planned to take my computer in for the repair. Then I would go shopping for my daughter's birthday present and have lunch with my husband. But, that still left half a day. No problem. Th More..

The 7 Simple Steps To Harnessing Your Creative Power And Achieving Incredible Success

Let me repeat what I believe is the most powerful and fundamental knowledge available to man: "YOU CAN CREATE ANY ACTUAL PHYSICALREALITY YOU WANT THROUGH THE INTENSEDESIRE, BELIEF AND PERSISTENCE OF YOUR MIND" Your desire for success brought this knowledge to you at this very moment, there is no doubt of that. But do you know how to harness it? To wield the power it makes available? Every great man and woman to ever walk the Earth harnessed this knowledge and wielded a power that allowed them More..

Get Creativity?

Creativity is central to the management of our individual lives, but in modern times few people are able to access this as a resource. Alan Watts writes in The Wisdom of Insecurity: "We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives out of all proportion to 'instinctual wisdom'; which we are allowing to slump into atrophy. As a consequence we are at war within ourselves - the brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things that the brain will not More..

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Turning Obstacles Into Blessings

"Your capacity to be creatively alive in virtually all life circumstances will depend in large part upon the kind of attitude you choose for yourself." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Author/Lecturer In almost every part of daily living, there are obstacles that prevent you from accomplishing your goals. Whether the obstacles are in running a business or in handling a personal crisis, the objective is the same. You have to get above it, over it, under it, or around the obstacle. Whenever you are faced wit More..

Finding A Little Adventure

I have had more than my share of exciting times and I'm grateful for every one of them. There was the time the bear came into camp at 11:00 p.m. and we listened to him consume two weeks worth of food for two people and a dog in only six hours. At 5:00 a.m., when it became obvious he had run out of goodies, we paddled our canoe out on to a very dark lake. He was still there when we went back at 7:00 to try to recover some of our gear. Probably because he'd also managed to polish off a flask of K More..

Top Ten Creative Strategies for Inspiring Creativity Where You Work and Play

Websites, automobiles, milk cartons, living spaces. Design saturates every aspect of our lives and the difference between success and failure could be the color purple, could be the person that you talk to every morning when you wake up, or could be the amount of light that streams into your office every day. These ten steps will support you in revitalizing your environments and will foster an amazing sense of innovation. With these strategies, creativity will become much more than a goal?it wi More..

9 Ways to Live Creatively

Creativity - according to Webster's it means having the ability or power to create; characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative. Ok that sounds great, wouldn't we all like to be more creative every day? Sometimes the hardest part to trying something new is the first step. Here are nine inspired steps to help you start living a creative way of life: 1. Be willing to try something new. When was the last time you stepped out of your everyday routine and did something totally diff More..

Theres A Light At The End Of Your Tunnel, Called Imagination!

Imagine this. You've got this huge dream you just turned into an exciting accomplishment. You had a huge problem you turned into a beautiful masterpiece. You had a giant obstacle you formed into a personal triumph, and now?.., you give a long stare at your prized possession and say, ain't that just the cat's pajamas. There's Just One Problem! That's not the way most people imagine. Yep, most people imagine the thing falling all apart. They put their "imaginer" in reverse and see all sorts of d More..

Creativity Stereotypes - Are They Holding You Back?

Here's a quick quiz: 1) When I see a see a sunrise, I'm moved to: A. Compose a poem. B. Try and capture the beauty with my paints and brush. C. Stumble drunkenly into bed -- boy that party was a lot offun. D. Cover my face with my pillow and go back to sleep. Whoin their right mind gets up early enough to look at sunrises? 2) At work, I'm the person my coworkers go to when theyneed someone to: A. Think up a new theme for the office party (especially if theywant it to be a bit wild and off More..

Connect With Your Creative Dream

We get so busy in our day-to-day life, with all the doing and actions and daily chores, that we can quickly lose sight of the BIG PICTURE. What's it all for? What are you working towards? If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? Taking the time to connect with your creative dream allows you to visit (and then revisit) the big picture. For instance, if I know that these smaller articles are going to come together into a book, I'm going to approach writing them More..

5 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity

We're born creative. However, this innate characteristic becomes buried as we get older. Our logical left brain usually takes the driver's seat. Here are 5 ways to help you unearth your creative self. 1. Surprise Your Mind. List laughable, ridiculous, outrageous and bizarre ideas. Don't limit yourself to ideas that other people consider "sane," "reasonable" or "logical." The best and most creative ideas stem from silly ones. When you're in a creative mode, you're suspending judgment on ideas yo More..

Tap the Creative Inside You

Imagination is the source of creativity. It's a place where unlimited possibilities reside. It's where pure energy lives. People are innately imaginative and creative. However, most people are simply not conscious of their imaginative and creative selves. Creativity is the cognitive process of developing a novel idea or concept. Teresa M. Amabile, a creativity expert, argues that creativity is not a quality of a person. Rather, it is a quality of ideas, behaviors or products. According to he More..

Unleash Your Creativity and Think Your Way Out of the Box

The brain is a strange organ. It works in ways we don't yet understand and manages to create everything we see. Working at odds with the rest of the body it performs best when we're not consciously trying and it is exactly this right-hemisphere activity that contributes to some of our most creative moments. Creativity is the lifeblood of every facet of life. From the arts to business, without it, things would become stale very quickly. Yet, as society is becoming more complex and process-driven More..

The Elements of Creativity: What-ifs?

What if there is no toilet paper and I am halfway through doing the "do"? What if one of my team members decides to leave the project halfway and he happens to be the most knowledgeable guy there? What if I turn colour blind, how should I adapt to the environment? What-if, what-if and more what-ifs? The technique of asking What-ifs provokes an individual to think and to produce something new. At times, in order to find original solutions to old problems, one must take the leap of faith and a More..

Characteristics: Creative Types VS Clods!

Here are some odds & ends I have observed in creative-expert-genius types: Direction of Motivation: creatives move toward what they want in all areas of their life while the clods move away from what they don't want. Time Orientation: creatives look forward to completion. Clods look backward at how they have been unable to do it and assume future is also failure. Memory Management: creatives look toward constructed imagery combining the new with the old to create. Clods rely almost exclus More..

The Sylvia Plath Pattern Of Creative Flow

* Sylvia Plath teaches a valuable lesson about the Even Flow - opening the channels for creativity, regardless of this is for poetry or not. Sylvia Plath was a poet and that was her job and her life. She would every day no matter what, as soon as breakfast was over and no matter where she was in the world, sit down with her notebook and just start to write - about absolutely anything at all. As she explains, this was NOT in order to create a wondrous new poem, but ONLY in order to keep the ch More..

Stress VS Creativity

Now when I use the term "creativity", I mean the kind of states of mind and body where thoughts and ideas flow freely; where there is a STREAM of data information that comes clearly from a very different place than one might normally inhabit and which translates smoothly and perfectly into colours, visions, sounds, patterns, movements, actions and resolutions. These are very beautiful states, very precious; this flow of "creativity" is nourishing, enlivening and one can do so many things for a More..

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