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Creativity Management: Do Creative People Have Common Characteristics?
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 Role of Motivation
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…Painting Books - Drive into the World of Creativity
We all like being creative. Our busy schedule hardly gives us any time to spent time with our self’s. Constant focus on work makes our life dull.Read more…Creative Intelligences - 7 Ways to come up with Great Ideas
Creative Intelligences 7 Intelligences & Creativity Not just for children There are many models and techniques that aim to help people come up with creative ideas. In this article I describe an original way of using Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences as a helpful pattern for generating a wide range of ideas in any subject. I must first review the basics of Gardner's theory, so that you may later understand how I use it as a creative tool.Read more…Using Perception and Third Eye Part 4 - Creative Projects
If you are a writer you could use your third eye knowledge a lot. Consciously open before you begin writing and then if you’re working on a subject that you don’t know fully, say, silently to yourself, “What do you want me to say on this?” Most times, you will become intensely connected, but your sight will become a little vague.Read more…Imagination, Our Vital Attribute
Professor Albert Einstein once stated that imagination is even more important than knowledge. We all have this faculty, and we use it constantly, but the vital question is how? Do we apply it constructively, in helping to further our dreams and our goals, and bring to fruition the sum total of our sense perceptions?Read more…Creativity Creates Change, and Change Offers Opportunity for More Creativity
While having brunch with a new friend today, I related my journey over the past decade and how the wonderful, guiding energy we generally pay no attention to, had brought me many life altering events. Indeed, the past 10-15 years have personally been ones of enormous change; sometimes invited and sometimes not.Recently, the first glorious day of spring came and went, we had a tiny sliver of a new moon a few days ago, the snow has been replaced by green grass and showers, and I’m writing a new article today.Read more…Personal Best Thinking: Develop Your Creativity For Maximum Success
We have all experienced that “AHA” moment when we connected an idea we had struggled to understand with an experience that made the idea perfectly clear. This experiential learning process is fundamental to best thinking.Those who develop best thinking become experts in their fields.Read more…Creativity Vacation
I was reflecting on how I spend a week each year in Taos, New Mexico at the Mable Dodge Luhan House co-leading a retreat with author and performer Suzanne Falter-Barns (www.howmuchjoy.com).Read more…Creative Companions - Why We Need Never Really Create Alone
In its most obvious interpretation this could be another person. But what if we open this idea of a creative companion a little wider?)For many creative people, much of their creative work is done completely alone.Read more…The Power of Cumulative Creativity - 5 Compelling Benefits of Creating a little Each Day
One of the most common perceptions of non-artists about how creative people work is that seized by inspiration at the most unlikely times, they rush to their notebook, easel or computer and create furiously for hours until they’re burnt out, exhausted and unable to create anymore.Then, after suffering an unpredictable and turbulent period of some form of creative block, suddenly the next day/ week/ month/ year their inspiration grips them once more and they again create manically. And so the pattern continues.Read more…Lasting Imagination
Almost 90% of all individuals lose their basic ability for creativity by the age of eight years old. One could look to many excuses or reasons why this happens, but it happens. One of the most commonly attributed reasons for this has been the apparent lack of emphasis on individual creative thinking during an individual’s normal day at elementary school.Read more…Before you Climb your Creative Mountains - Build up your Strength by Frolicking in the Foothills!
Most creative people have great ambitions for their creativity, at various different levels. We all have some dream project or series of projects we’re striving towards, and then smaller but no less creative or worthwhile pieces of work along the way.For example if you’re a graphic designer, a small ambition may be to design a logo for your new side project business.Read more…Creating to Connect – How All Creativity is About Communicating
Living a creative life is often very closely connected with our feelings and emotions. It is no coincidence that those of us who are creative also tend to share traits of being emotional, sensitive, and good at communicating with others.To be able to use creativity as a means of connecting with other people then, it’s essential to be able to tap into our own deep feelings and experiences within, and then convey them in an articulate way to our intended audience.Read more…Give yourself a Cuddle! - Self Care Techniques for the Creative
As creative people, it can often feel a struggle to remain focused, inspired and on track, whether on a particular creative project, or in our lives in general.We can gather support from those around us - friends, family, peers, mentors, coaches – and this in itself can of course be hugely valuable. But there’s another additional source of support and encouragement we can always call upon, and one that most of us find all too easy to overlook.Read more…Creative Footprints - What kind are you Leaving?
Each time we create something, however big or small, it leaves an impact on us, and our surroundings. Consider these as creative footprints, as if the world around you is a vast sandy beach and each creative step you take leaves its trace in the sand.All the great artists and creative people in history have left significant footprints behind them, in the legacy of their work.Read more…Imagination
Hold on to your hat, you are about to take an incredible ride!! If used properly, imagination is one of the greatest tools that you can use.Read more…Creativity Changed My Life
Ever been in a situation where fears rule your life, where you know there is something better, or at least a better way to be?The creativity process started for me over 2 years ago, an interview at a Tafe College 'an introduction into fine arts'. I remember sitting there, feeling as though I was back at school listening to the teacher.Read more…AND I'm an Artist: Art as a Hobby
The dictionary definition of hobby is: "A pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation." (Merriam-Webster)The word hobby evokes an image of something you love to do, something you ache for when you're sitting as your desk looking out at the window at a sunny day, something you never seem to have quite enough time for.So why is it that some people call art a hobby, and some people don't?Read more…Staying With It: Momentum Overcomes Procrastination
In a previous article I mentioned a new credo that I'm working to adopt into my life, and that's to "do one thing (at a time) and do it well".When I can focus my thoughts, efforts and energies on that ONE thing (at a time), I'm much more productive and I enjoy my work (or play, or learning) much more. - From "The Magic of Storytelling" by Linda Dessau.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.