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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
Tuesday 16th March 2010
I went to a great Network Central breakfast in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. The speaker was a guy called Peter Webb, speaking about decision-making. He quoted the well-known story of the Hedgehog and the Fox, about the importance of having a clear vision, a single big idea about your life.
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Wednesday 3rd February 2010
It's easy to find references these days to the importance of business innovation. And it's true, creative thinking and innovation are critical if you want to surf the current waves of change in business. But it's not just about commercial enterprise.
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Tags: ideas, innovation, social
Thursday 1st October 2009
Every now and then a new book breaks through the mind-numbing plethora of self-help tomes in your local bookshop - Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness was such a one. Already well-known as a founder of the Positive Psychology movement and the author of Learned Optimism and The Optimistic Child (both truly excellent), with Authentic Happiness Seligman lays out practical steps that anyone can take to create a happier, more meaningful life.
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Tuesday 16th June 2009
A Scientific American Mind magazine issue on creativity a few years ago reported on fascinating research showing that creative people less likely to filter out peripheral information or irrelevant data from their minds than the rest of us.
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Tuesday 12th May 2009
I'm always interested when clients tell me they want to change careers, or start their own business, or introduce a sweeping change in their workplace - especially when they expect to make this shift without a learning curve.
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