Creativity and the Brain: Research and Insights
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights Creativity and the Brain – “We were born to create! In fact, before we were born, we, with the help of our mothers, exerted a significant amount of energy in creating neural connections among neurons (the brain’s major brain cells). These connections created a complex brain system, [...]
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Does Brainstorming for Innovation Work? Maybe not… when you consider personality style
“Fresh ideas come when your brain is relaxed and engaged in something other than the particular problem you’re embroiled in… This is the polar opposite of what happens in brainstorming sessions. Long showers, soaks in a tub, long walks, or doing chores are frequently when those “synapses” that find alternative solutions to a problem [...]
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Sweating Your Way to Creativity
Creativity: The ability to bring together disparate ideas in new and useful combinations. You like? I read it in a review of Christopher Bergland’s The Athlete’s Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss in Psychology Today. He makes good points about the benefit of ‘sweat equity’ (ouch the pun!) in the creative process. Albert [...]
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The Science of Creativity in 2013 – repost from BigThink
Sam McNerny’s BigThink blogpost is bolded for your reading ease. I appreciate the cursory overview and insights into what might be the future for the field. Would be great to hear from others about their predictions of where the study of creativity and methods used to evoke new ideas, new decisions and spur new actions [...]
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Adobe survey: Creativity is important for career success – repost from Smartplanet
Could creativity be the key to performing well at work? Yes, according to a recent online survey commissioned by software maker Adobe. The study found that 78% of college-educated, full-time salaried American adults 25 and older believe that “creativity is important” to their current career. A whopping 85% of the 1,000 survey participants agree that “creative thinking is [...]
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Creativity – how valuable is it? Adobe releases Global Study of Creativity – from Venture Beat
Adobe study reveals massive creativity gaps, but not in gender or age April 23, 2012 11:07 AM Jolie O’Dell Whether you’re able to be creative or not has little to do with how old you are or whether you’re female or male, but it might depend heavily on where you live, how your boss [...]
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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 [...]
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What's the big deal about creativity?
Let’s face it, people use their creativity everyday, even you. You create mash-ups, make new decisions, use your imagination, combine existing elements into new patterns and relationships and more, and not necessarily because you want to. As conditions continue to change more rapidly than ever you adapt, we all adapt. For example with the growth [...]
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How to Overcome Three Threats to Creativity – from Teresa Amabile
Teresa Amabile from Harvard Business School is one of my favourite creativity researchers ever since her 1982 book, The Social Psychology of Creativity was published.She introduced the intrinsic theory of motivation for creativity – that creativity is supported more when a person does something he or she likes for the sake of the activity, not [...]
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Intellectual Hide-and-Seek Taught in Schools
The more I work with leadership teams the more I see the influence intellectual hide and seek being played, and, I wonder what the fix is, or even if a fix is needed. Ronald Beghetto, a University of Oregon College of education researcher, is bringing attention to the micro-moments in class during which teachers influence [...]
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