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Creativity and The Three Stages of Conscious Design Build, Part III: Consciousness
Welcome back! Hopefully you didn’t get too depressed thinking about all the ways your self-conscious behavior jeopardizes your ability to bring your true creative gifts into the world. Again, don’t linger on it. We all do it to some degree. Let’s get to the good stuff, something we all can aspire towards while we love […]
Creativity is The Most Essential Skill for Navigating an Increasingly Complex World
What’s the most essential skill for the rapidly changing, interdependent world? Creativity! Check this out and don’t put off your own creative development! Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research […]
From Idea to End Product, Innovation is Creativity in Action
According to Brenna Sniderman, a staff writer for Forbes Magazine, in order to have true innovation, the creative idea must be developed into something useful. A good read here on creativity, innovation, and business. Without traction, an idea – no matter how good — is like a brand-new pair of running shoes. The potential is […]
Though Most Celebrate Creativity, Many Reject Creative Ideas for Fear of Uncertainty
Here is a powerful and nuanced article by Amanda Enayati looking at one of the fundamental paradoxes of creativity: Though creativity is outwardly celebrated by people from all walks of life, creative ideas are often rejected in time of uncertainty precisely because they seem strange and foreign. I found this read to be illuminating: Creativity […]
How to Promote Creativity in Young Children
Children are naturally creative. Yet certain activities encourage that creativity more than others. According to Dr Rebecca Palacios, it is important to encourage creativity in children by presenting them with open-ended materials where their ultimate use is created by the child. Objects with specific functions, however, such as a toy that is designed to illicit […]