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The Creative Mind newspaper for Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth. By Douglas Eby
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“Their creativity and productivity...were not the result of endless hours of toil. Their towering creative achievements result from modest ‘working’ hours.”
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Psychologist Robert Maurer cites research: "if you have people have to mix during the course of their day, they will sometimes create ideas they would never do as they’re isolated in their cubicles.”
Elizabeth Gilbert addresses a number of topics related to being creative, including dealing with fears.
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Excerpt from video on creativity by cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman.
Douglas Eby's insight:
For more from Scott Barry Kaufman related to his new book “Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined” see my post Don’t You Have To Be “Gifted and Talented” To Be Creative?
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Yes, caffeine helps. But new research shows that the moderate noise level in cafés also perks up your creative cognition. PROBLEM: To optimize creativity, how quiet or noisy should your workspace be? Media Multitaskers May Have Sharper Senses Bilingualism May Boost Attention, Working Memory Email Breaks at Work Reduce Stress, Improve Productivity METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Ravi Mehta conducted five experiments to understand how ambient sounds affect creative cognition.
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There is growing support for the creative value of mentally stepping away from our work for a while, and not being so captivated by only consciousness.
Neuropsychologist Eric Kandel writes, “When we take the wrong approach to a problem, which happens often, we get nowhere by continuing to think about it. But if we refrain from thinking about the problem and distract ourselves… [we] transition from a rigid, convergent perspective to an associative, divergent perspective.”
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Visual spatial learners are more likely to be a late bloomer, as well as creatively, mechanically, emotionally, or technologically gifted. Lesley Sword (of Gifted and Creative Services Australia) explains, “Temporal, sequential and analytic functions are thought to be associated with the left hemisphere of the brain. In contrast, spatial thinking involves synthesis, an intuitive grasp of complex systems, (often missing the steps) simultaneous processing of concepts, inductive reasoning (from the whole to the parts), use of imagination and generation of ideas by combining existing facts in new ways (creative thinking)."
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Ever wish you were more creative? Research has shown that adults can be primed to become more creative simply by being asked to think like children. For the purposes of the study conducted at North Dakota State University, college students were asked to imagine and write about what they would do if school was canceled for the day. In the experimental condition, they were primed in advance of writing to imagine that they were seven years old. Merely being primed to think like a child resulted in the production of more original responses on a subsequent measure of creativity.
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The Creative Mind Daily for March 27 includes: * The serious health consequences of not dreaming * Shy monkeys and anxious temperament * No One Normal Could Have Done This | etc.
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The Creative Mind newspaper for Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth. Photo: Stephen King from one of the articles: Impostor Feelings Can Dampen Your Creativity
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Here are four books with related videos for exploring your creative mind, and helping you, your children and students be more creative.
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Author David Burkus addresses many of the myths of creativity, which often get in the way of personal creative work, and business innovation.
"We say we want more creativity, but when we are presented with new ideas, we have a hard time recognizing their utility. This is something I see in almost all organizations.”
Douglas Eby's insight:
In an audio clip in this article, psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson, host of The Science of Thriving conference http://bit.ly/19YUD7T interviews David Burkus, who talks about the "Eureka" myth of creative inspiration, and about incubation. See his book The Myths of Creativity http://buff.ly/H6r1fr - and hear more audio clips in post: Thriving In Work and Life: An Online Conference http://buff.ly/1a3K9m1
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Creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says, “If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity.
“Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos – and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.”
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How we think about having and developing abilities can have a strong impact on actually using our talents. If we think creative expression has to wait for inspiration from a muse, or that there are only a few “chosen” geniuses with exceptional “gifts” in computer graphics, fashion design, writing novels or whatever – and think we aren’t one of those few – we may not even explore our talents well enough to create something worthwhile.
Professor of psychology R. Keith Sawyer says, "Forget those romantic myths that creativity is all about being artsy and gifted and not about hard work. They discourage us because we’re waiting for that one full-blown moment of inspiration. And while we’re waiting, we may never start working on what we might someday create." > From my book Developing Multiple Talents: The personal side of creative expression
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There is growing support for the creative value of mentally stepping away from our work for a while, and not being so captivated by only consciousness.
Neuropsychologist Eric Kandel writes, “When we take the wrong approach to a problem, which happens often, we get nowhere by continuing to think about it. But if we refrain from thinking about the problem and distract ourselves… [we] transition from a rigid, convergent perspective to an associative, divergent perspective.”
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"What I was interested in was something far more specific: the application of memory, of these sorts of memory-enhancing techniques, to literature—and, on an even broader scale, to creativity. (A complete side-note: I find it fascinating that embodiment has the same effects on creativity as it does on memory." ~~ Book in the article: Joshua Foer. Moonwalking with Einstein http://vsb.li/FbOMqM
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