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Tuesday 27th July 2010
One of my favourite quotes is from American poet Muriel Rukeyser: The world is made of stories, not atoms. Stories aren't just for children, or indulgent afternoons on the sofa. They are are equally important in the world of work.
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Tuesday 20th July 2010
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about sudden change. It must have been an omen, because since then I have had change all around me.
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Tuesday 13th July 2010
I've written before about the importance of play for creative thought and I emphasise curiosity and play every time I speak or run a workshop. And that's because play frees up the mind, breaks the hold of the rational brain and let's us make connections that otherwise would not have happened.
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Tag: play
Tuesday 6th July 2010
What a week...in Australia we have seen a change of Prime Minister (almost) out of the blue, we have seen Australia - and a whole heap of other countries - out of the soccer World Cup, we have seen contestants eliminated from Masterchef as well as some eliminated contestants brought back in. Some of you may think that it's silly to mention Masterchef in the same sentence as the Prime Minister - let alone the soccer - but it's not silly, not at all :)
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Tag: change
Wednesday 30th June 2010
I have spoken about mindmapping before, and I teach it almost every time I present, because I truly believe it is THE most useful thinking, planning, connecting and clarifying tool around.
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Tags: creativity, mindmapping
Wednesday 23rd June 2010
I was listening to an audiobook the other day, and the guy was talking about some research he'd seen. It was all about mathematicians and scientific types describing how they came up with their creative ideas. It seems that creativity happens in the space between other thoughts, in those moments when the mental chatter, day-to-day concerns and external stimuli drop away. This is why we get so many of our good ideas in the shower or when waking or when out walking the dog.
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Tags: ideas, creativity, meditation
