Over the years we tend to develop thinking styles that become ingrained. People who say, "I'm not creative" or "I'm not really a thinker" simply have not been made aware of, or adopted, thinking ...

Imagine yourself in a labyrinth, vast – endless for all you know. You wander the corridors, stumbling upon a closed door. You could invest some effort into unlocking it to find out what’s inside.

This post is part 2 of a series. In my previous post, I wrote that, after being inspired by Rick Rubin’s book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, I decided to find out what is going on in the human ...

Creativity can be as valuable in an office or a factory as it is at studios like Pixar, claim the change specialists at HWC. Creative thinking doesn't require a lone genius struggling to find ...

The concept of presence of mind, as a tool for strategy, comes from one of the original writers on that subject: the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz. In his classic book On War, published in 1832 ...

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Think of your most common habits and the regular culprits come to mind–biting your nails, snacking late at night, cracking your knuckles. Do something enough times and it becomes a behavioral pattern ...

Hope /noun/ a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. I oftentimes find myself hoping for the following: To make the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. To earn one million dollars. To ...

"Any ability or tendency which serves to bring otherwise mutually remote ideas into contiguity will facilitate a creative solution; any ability or tendency which serves to keep remote ideas from ...

A lot has been written about different negotiating techniques. There’s anchoring – setting a really low or high first offer, which sets the tone for the rest of the negotiation. You could put timing ...

Many theorists in the field of Gifted Education include Creativity in their explanation of giftedness. (See Renzulli, Sternberg, Torrance, and Gagne, for starters.) Renowned geniuses such as Leonardo ...