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Creativity and Confidence: How To Supercharge Your Self-Confidence Using Your Natural Creativity
Great self-confidence is something that everyone can benefit from developing.Why is it that when the lives of two friends or colleagues of similar backgrounds, education, age, and ability are compared, we often see that one has achieved great things in all aspects of their lives with seemingly very little effort or restriction, whilst the other has struggled and fumbled through, been easily discouraged and de-motivated and looked up to their colleague other with increasing envy and frustration?The difference that makes the difference between these two individuals often simply comes down their level of self-confidence.Read more…A Creative Journey – Using a Magazine to Heighten Creativity and Learning
Read essays, articles, or books on creativity and you will more than once you will read that you can heighten your creativity and create new ideas by reading magazines that you wouldn’t typically read. The suggestion is to go to your local newsstand and pick up magazines you wouldn’t ever read and read them for ideas, connections and trends.This is an often repeated example of using outside stimulus as a way to jumpstart our creativity.Read more…New Gadgets - Six Ideas
It is possible that some of these new gadgets already exist in an inventor's basement or garage somewhere. One or two may even be patented, but then again, maybe not. Probably most things are dreamt up ten or ten thousand times before someone actually does something with the idea.Read more…Increase Creativity By Concocting Your Own Special Rocket Fuel
How would you like to discover a secret that can instantly recharge and rejuvenate you, give you a major burst of energy and set your creativity alight?Well, all that’s needed is a little bit of chemistry...Consider this “scientific equation” - “Encouragement = Rocket Fuel”What does this mean to you?Read more…Creativity Is Just Like Mathematics - Addition and Subtraction-No, Wait! Come Back!
We all create in slightly different ways, as all of us are unique people. There are common traits and styles though throughout everyone who creates, and if we take the time to discover some of the ways our creativity manifests itself and how we create our best work, it can be of great benefit to us in the long run.One simple example of two different types of creativity is between creating by addition or creating by subtraction.Read more…No Comment
If they don’t encourage it, many article directories provide for reader comments. It is easy for a reader to assume that a writer does not want to read the opinions of her readers and in some cases the assumption would be correct. Some writers write to see their words and name in print and they are not really interested in the small investment the reader makes to listen or to comment.Read more…Creativity Management: the Value of Engagement in Unrelated Activites
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).Read more…Creativity Management: the Value of Tacit Knowledge
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).Read more…You Can Unleash the Great Artist Within You
The first steps of a child are always the most joyful! Children think in images. Their consciousness is not socially conditioned yet.Read more…Creativity Management: the Value of Focusing on Techniques
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).Read more…Creativity Management: the Gap Between the Conscious and Subconscious Mind
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation and innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialization.Complex problems, once identified, slip into the unconscious mind: the mind works on them at various cognitive levels.Unconscious cognitive activity can be enhanced in many ways, for example, through engagement in rest and unrelated activities.Read more…Creative Sensuality - How Regularly Exercising Your Senses Can Help You Increase Your Creativity
One of the most fundamental and profound ways of being creative is developing the ability to see situations from different points of view, often from angles that others can’t or simply wouldn’t have thought of.“Point of view” implies using just our sense of sight, but it’s an expression we also use to mean experiencing an event in a completely different way through all of our senses, not just our sight.Exercising and stretching our senses by practicing this can help us be more open to others as well as making it easier to come up with new ideas and solutions for ourselves.Read more…Ways to Crank Up your Creativity
Creativity is a quality that we all have buried inside of us, one way or the other. It involves the invention of something new or the re-invention of something already existing to make it useful of interesting.Some people’s creative abilities are closer to the surface and one can easily see the manifestations of them.Read more…Creativity Management: Spend an Hour a Day on Creativity?
There is an argument that spending an hour a day on creativity is nonsense – how can you possibly come up with good ideas to order like that?Actually, this makes sense. What we're really talking about is creativity and time pressure.Read more…Speed Up Your Manifestation Success!
The following true story illustrates what manifestation isn’t and what you can do to avoid certain attitudes to increase your manifestation success and make your dreams come true.Observe how a guy prayed the whole year without a fail but didn’t get his dream manifested and how the problem got solved J!This guy we shall call Paul didn’t keep any money in his hands even in times when he got plenty of it.Read more…The Secret Of Creativity In Business, Art, And Life
The Creative SpaceYears ago, at a Self-Improvement workshop by Jerry Stocking, participants were asked to listen to a children’s rhyme and repeat it. It was a rather long rhyme and everybody lost track of the sequence of events and stopped in embarrassment.A tense and nervous atmosphere built up in the room as one person after another failed to recite the entire rhyme.Read more…How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
It's so easy to let the everyday stuff of living get in the way of your creativity. Sometimes, when you're done with your day, it's the last thing you feel like doing. I think most of us would agree, though, if we just start working on a song, play an instrument, or put on music, then listen or dance, the time flies and the music works as wonderful therapy.Read more…Creativity Management: Radical versus Incremental Creativity
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).Read more…Creativity Management: The Creative Process
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).Read more…Creativity Management: Idea Valuation and Evaluation
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Creativity category
- Creativity and Original Thinking: Act Like a Child - By: Lucretia Torva
When you feel you are not creative, remember what it was like to be a child. Tap into that fresh and creative point of view. - What is Creativity? - By: Lucretia Torva
Creativity is not mysterious. It can be learned and enhanced with some effort. - Creativity: The importance of Incubation. - By: Lucretia Torva
When do your best ideas appear? Is it when you least expect it? There's a reason for great ideas appearing at odd moments and it's just how our minds work. - Creativity and Original Thinking: Suggestions from Personal Experience. - By: Lucretia Torva
A successful visual artist shares tips and tricks to support creative and original thinking. Your great idea may be one simple step away from taking shape. - Access to the Creative Flow - By: Patrice Julien
Imagine what you call reality as being the images of a movie on a screen, the source being a "realistic" scenario inside the projector you are.Without this "SHIFT" we continue to be the slaves of an illusion of "reality" and the victims of our cultural overlays. To illustrate how those overlays shape the energy around us I will take the example of a very deep evidence we all share : the fact that we have to work to get money... - Lessons From The Subway - By: John Dir
In solving problems, I often recall a valuable lesson I learned while traveling the subway in Washington D.C. Some years back, a friend and I attended a large gathering of people from all over the country. - Perfect Gift Wrap Ideas - Master the Art of Wrapping Your Gifts Beautifully - By: Michael Douglas
Haven't there been times when you've received presents that have been wrapped so beautifully that you've let them remain unwrapped simply to admire their beautiful state? Now you too can wrap gifts to perfection and know that people will admire and remember them for a long time to come. Here's how... - You Can Fly! - By: Mark Hamer
Well, it depends on what you mean by ‘fly’ doesn’t it?Let me explain. If you want to fly in business, or in your social or creative life, to fly means to be able to fulfill your potential, to allow your creativity to flower, to exploit your own uniqueness as an individual, to enjoy the freedom of feeling fulfilled and successful. - How to Draw Fantasy Creatures - By: Will Kalif
Drawing fantasy creatures takes some skills that go beyond the normal realm of drawing because you can’t find a subject to pose for you – unless you live in an enchanted forest! So you are faced with not only the task of learning how to draw you are also faced with the challenge of tapping into your imagination and then putting this down on paper. Here are some solid tips that will help you imagine and draw better fantasy creatures. - Mindfulness and Painting: Playing Without Expectations - By: Maya Talisman Frost
Painting is my new passion. Who knew?A few days ago, I was talking to my mother on the phone.