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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
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Four years ago, English creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson argued in his first talk for TED that we don't get the best out of people because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies - far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity - are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. 'We are educating people out of their creativity,' he said.
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Tags: creativity, ted
Wednesday 19th May 2010
OK, let's start this post by getting an apology out of the way. Some of you will have attended one of my presentations or done coaching with me, and if so, it's just possible you heard me say that being creative is easy, that all you have to do is get out of your own way and it will just happen. Well I was wrong. And I am sorry if I misled you.
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Tag: creativity
Tuesday 27th April 2010
We all got to play with crayons when we were little kids. But as we grew up, our teachers and our parents took them away or talked us out of using them - instead, we had to learn 'serious' and 'sensible' stuff. We (mostly) turned away from our creative, right-brained way of looking at the world, knuckled down, did what was expected and worked hard. In doing so, gradually we put away the things of childhood, crayons included.
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Tags: thinking, creativity, play
Wednesday 21st April 2010
Whether we realise it or not, we all see the world through filters - formed by our temperament, our personal history, education, culture, sex and life circumstances. We may think we know the world 'as it really is', but of course this is only our personal reality and there are many many more ways to look at life than we believe, or have even encountered.
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Tags: creativity, tips, assumptions
