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A New Approach to Igniting and Sustaining Creativity
- By Anne Paris
- Published 04/28/2008
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Revolutionary
understandings in clinical psychology now suggest that healthy
interpersonal relationships are the fuel for optimal emotional,
cognitive, intellectual, behavioral, and creative functioning.
Contrary to how we’ve been taught to value independence and autonomy, this new scientific evidence is showing that we are at our best when we are connected with others. Do schools kill creativity?
- By Ken Robinson
- Published 04/5/2008
- Creativity enhancement
My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as
literacy, and we should treat it with the same status...
Truthfully what happens is, as children grow up we start to educate
them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads.
And slightly to one side.
Marvelous confabulation
- By Robert Genn
- Published 12/25/2007
- Creativity enhancement
Early researchers linked
confabulation with amnesia and abnormal brain chemistry.
Nowadays
it's
more pleasantly harnessed to the marvelous potential of the human
imagination. Fantastic and spontaneous outpourings of irrelevant
associations and bizarre ideas come quite naturally to ordinary
creative folks.
In Praise of Perfectionism
- By Stephen Diamond
- Published 11/13/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented , Creativity enhancement
Perfectionism
has taken a bum rap. Were it not for perfectionism, we would be in
short
supply of all those myriad human activities we deem extraordinary,
excellent,
outstanding or great in quality.
Overcoming Obstacles to Creating
- By Eric Maisel
- Published 11/10/2007
- Creativity enhancement
Info on a series of podcasts on the
Personal Life Media page
"The Joy of
Living Creatively:
Tapping Your
Innovation and Imagination."
Archetypes for Writers
- By Jennifer Van Bergen
- Published 01/27/2007
- Creativity enhancement , Writing
The character development work "doing
archetypes" is the foundation for
discovering and writing your own already-existing characters.
Places to be Creative
- By Douglas Eby
- Published 10/26/2006
- Creativity enhancement
In her essay A Room of One's Own
in 1929, Virginia Woolf said that for women artists “a lock on the door
means the power to think for oneself" and to develop the "habit of
freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think."
But
solitude is not the only sort of place to nourish creative expression.
Many artists acknowedge the value of academies such as Idyllwild and
Juilliard, and less formal artist retreats and workshops.
Nurture Creativity and Intuition
- By Brad Swift
- Published 10/17/2006
- Creativity enhancement
Whether you consider yourself a highly creative person or not, it is
possible for all of us to be more creative if we'll take the time to
nurture that part of ourselves.
These
simple steps will give you direction in how to bring more of your
creativity to the surface and to optimize your intuitive powers at the
same time.
What Is the Common Thread of Creativity?
- By Misc Author
- Published 10/16/2006
- Creativity enhancement
By
Robert J. Sternberg --
Creativity refers to the
potential to produce novel ideas that are task-appropriate and high in
quality. Creativity in a societal context is best understood in terms
of a dialectical relation to intelligence and wisdom.
In particular, intelligence forms the thesis
of such a dialectic. Intelligence largely is used to advance existing
societal agendas.
Spark Your Creativity Via Your Intuitions
- By Gail McMeekin
- Published 09/18/2006
- Creativity enhancement
Worried that
you’re not creative? You are, but you may be out of touch with it. Your
intuition can lead you into a world of novel ideas, experimentation,
and brainstorming that will perk up your work life and stimulate
innovation and problem-solving.
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