Generating Ideas: Everything is a Starting Point

A great mentality to have is to treat every idea as just a starting point. This is true whether you the ideas are yours or someone else's. Once you can do this, you become more resourceful and a much better team member.

Creativity Tool: Spreading Synonyms

This article is one in a series of short articles describing practical creativity tools. The technique described in this article is especially good when you need to work on catchy names or slogans, impressive speeches, or other occasions in which your creativity has to be expressed through words. The article includes detailed examples to make the creativity tool clearer.

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.

Develop Your Intuition

Have you had that experience when all of a sudden you just had this huge hunch that something is about to happen, and to your surprise, that intuition was eventually translated to reality? Now you can develop your intuition!

Our Creative Imagination has the Power of Transcendence

In the Ode to a Nightingale (Stanza 1): Keats describes his reaction to a nightingale's song while sitting in a garden. So intense is his happiness that it paradoxically produces pain and a dull feeling, and he longs to be united with the bird's song.

The Two-minute Drill: Crisis Resolution

Here is the shortest explanation on crisis resolution you will find. If you are skeptical, read on!

Be Your Own Sounding Board

One of the drawbacks to the solitary lifestyle of the home office worker is the lack of colleagues to brainstorm with. When a problem arises, we are left to our own devices to come up with creative solutions. The ability to generate new ideas and solutions is very important in any endeavor.

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.

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.

The Laws of Creativity

Creativity is the process of formulating new ideas and concepts. It is also associated to finding the connection between these thoughts. Looking at creativity from a scientific perspective, creative process (which is also called divergent thought) are said to be original and appropriate.

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.

On Becoming A Cartoonist

Alexa and Netcraft's top-ranked cartoonist talks about the land mines and challenges of becoming a cartoonist, shifting gears in mid-life.

Creative Perfectionism Is A Killer Disease: Here's The Miracle Cure

What is the one single thing that more than anything else stops us from creating? The disease that kills creative projects dead, saps creative energy like a swamp full of starving leeches and can destroy a previously healthy and productive creative artist in hardly any time at all? Read on to find out what it is and how it can be cured...

Being More Creative: What's YOUR Story About Why You Don't Create More?

Each of us also holds dear a special kind of story. Or more accurately, a collection of stories, our own little pocket anthology. These aren't stories based on our own past exploits, events that have actually happened and we can recollect. These are the stories we've carefully constructed and now carry around, about who we are and what we can achieve. So what's YOUR story about why you don't create more?

7 Improv Principles for Creative Flow and Cultural Transformation

By adhering to 7 basic improv principles you can access greater creative flow. They are fun and effective for personal, organizational, or cultural transformation.