Try This Brainpower Quiz

Think you know a bit about the brain and how it works? See how you do on this brainpower quiz.

8 Small Ideas that Made Big Businesses

The best products come from the most unusual ideas...

Pop Goes the Weasel: Thinking Outside the Box

Thinking outside of the box, also known as derivative, breakthrough or lateral thinking, is a mental process that involves the generation of new ideas or applying different associations to existing ideas. In other words in means looking at things from different angles and adapting them for practical, every day use.

Creativity Tool-Killing the Demons

This article is one in a series of short articles describing practical creativity tools. It describes a step-by-step process that may help you break new grounds - overcoming psychological barriers that arise from past experiences, fears and inhibitions.

Tips for Better Brainstorming

The most direct application of creativity is brainstorming. Here are some simple techniques to maximize your brainstorming efforts.

Techniques To Personality Creativity

Sometimes, you perceive of your personality as someone who would not know creativity even if it knocked you on the head with a sledgehammer. And sometimes, you just come to the realization that you and creativity just would not mix. It is like oil and water for you and creativity, or so you think.

More Effective Learning - A Simple Technique

More effective learning techniques mean learning with less work. Here is a simple technique to try.

Thinking As An Art Form—5 Ways To Improve The Quality Of Strategic And Creative Thinking

5 quick ways to improve the quality of your thinking and create your next masterpiece!

Creativity And The Artist-Overcoming The Biggest Fear Of All

When we come to trying something new creatively, we all seem to experience any number of entangled fears and doubts around moving forward with the project, and can become quickly overwhelmed. But what if we realised that most of the time we don’t have a whole series of complicated and intertwined fears and doubts, that they can all be summed up as the same single fear? How much power would be taken from those fears, and how much easier would they be to overcome?

Give Serendipity a Chance

The process of taking a few wrong turns or saying you are not available to go with the crowd to the business dinner opens up a world of possibilities ranging from the discovery of a new neighborhood to touching the massive bricks making up sections of the Great Wall. These changes in our routines added up over time will form a habit allowing new ideas to seep into your consciousness and innovation to occur in your organization. New innovative ideas will occur when you take the time to alter your perceptions of a place and at the same time this will improve the connection you have to yourself.

Creativity Management: The Value of Time Pressure

There is a pervasive belief that time pressure stimulates creativity. This is both true and false.

An Ice-Breaker To Reinsure Everyone

Use this ice-breaker to kick start a creativity workshop or just have a good time with your friends on a rainy afternoon.

Why Do We Want to Be Creative?

The first and most important question to ask ourselves is why we want to be creative. If our answer is not profound, then our chances of becoming truly creative are slim.

Adult ADD: Streamlining Your World to Boost Creativity

Here's the thing, some ADD people don't think they're creative for some reason. And that's usually because they're told that by a bunch of people who are really dumb.

Super Computers to Scan Data and Find Anomalies in Society and Discover Creative Geniuses

Although there are few that see things the way I observe them, I have noted that there are always anomalies in human societies no matter how small the data set. Take a High School for instance, there will be a few students in the school who are geniuses, a few spelling bee champions, a few super athletes, etc. What is important is that we find these superstars of the various domains and allow them to excel for the betterment of all.