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Wednesday 22nd July 2009
In many circles it is considered old-fashioned to be fully 'committed' in work or life... But in the creative life, a fierce commitment to your work may be your most effective strategy to ensure you finish your project, or create that new career, or come up with a winning idea at work.
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Tags: creativity, tips, commitment
Wednesday 15th July 2009
A couple of years ago I had the privilege of interviewing one of the world's top neuropsychologists, (currently Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine) Elkhonon Golberg. I was talking to him about age-proofing the brain and staving off dementia, but (naturally) couldn't resist slipping in a question about how to maximize the brain's capacity for creative thinking. His immediate answer: 'Novelty and diversity, and more novelty'.
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Tags: creativity, tips, adventures
Monday 25th May 2009
I have been a fan of Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping technique for at least 15 years. I use it most days for one thing or another. I plan workshops, map out articles to write, prepare my class notes - and daydream possibilities for fixing up the back yard.
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Tags: thinking, creativity, tips, mindmapping
Tuesday 19th May 2009
It's easy to be fearful at the moment - the media are full of stories about hard times, doom and gloom forecasts abound, and lots of things we took for granted only a year or so ago are no longer givens.
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Tags: creativity, failure, fear
Saturday 25th April 2009
Have you come across this nifty idea called 'shifting' from a guy called Robert Epstein? He has long been a fan of having groups work together for a while, then shift out of the group to work on the problem individually, then come back together again for another group round, then shift out again, and on it goes.
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Tags: ideas, thinking, creativity, tips
Sunday 19th April 2009
Here are some of my favourite tips for maximising creative thinking...
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Tags: ideas, creativity, tips
