Creativity

7 Ways To Spark Creativity

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Creativity, Finding Happiness, Happiness, Tips on Happiness, Emotional Wellness, Happiness Tips, Creative Writing, Journaling, On Creativity, Tips for Happiness, Creativity and Innovation, Creative, Healthy Living News

I've read a lot of advice about how to spark creativity. Everyone's creativity takes a different form, however, so the advice that works varies from person to person.

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The (Other) Little Death

David Kudler | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Creativity, Writer's Block, Writing, Helen Steele, Artistic Process, Books News

There's a point in most hero tales where the hero (or heroine) has to face a death -- either real or metaphoric. It's only after this death that the hero can reach his or her potential -- can become truly a hero.

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Your Start-up Life: Best Business Books to Groom Your Team

Rana Florida | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Creativity, Your Start-Up Life, Consultants, Strategy, Brand, Library, Economy, Books, Design, Trends, Innovation, Future, Business, Start-Up, Publications, Advice, Rana Florida, Marketing, Memoir, Technology, Management, Ideas, Business Books, Business News

Insights about business can be gleaned from almost any good book -- whether it's a memoir by a professional athlete or a page-turning account of the ups and downs of a frenetic political campaign.

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Five Life Lessons I Learned at a Beach Boys Concert

Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Creativity, Inspiration, Writing, Midlife, The Beach Boys, Beach Boys Tour, Music, Fifty News, Rock and Roll, Fifty News

At mid-life, our favorite songs compile quite the anthology, from the music that played at our high school prom to the first dance at our wedding.

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We Are the Company - and Books - We Keep

Jeff DeGraff | Posted 05.18.2012

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I was recently asked by an authority figure in fashionable red pumps to tidy up my library. I can only assume this is the first step of a more serious intervention. You see, I have a little problem with books. I'm addicted to them.

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Children's Drawings Transformed Into Stuffed Animals

Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Toys, Creativity, Child's Own, Wendy Tsao, Video, Toy Story, Crafts, Children, Stuffed Animals, Gifts for Kids, Child Imagination, Parenting, Slideexpand, Arts News

Artist Wendy Tsao turns kids' drawings into one-of-a-kind stuffed animals. She stumbled upon the idea when her four-year-old son when he needed a "com...

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Listening to the Heron

Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Symbolism, Creativity, Birds, Creative Writing, Inspiration, Fifty News, Writing, Symbols, Spirituality, Fifty News

What carries meaning or significance for you? When is an object, event or occurrence more than what it appears on the surface?

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Creativity, Persistence and Working Memory

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Creativity, Science, Thinking, Psychology, Innovation, Working Memory Study, Working Memory, Wandering Thoughts Working Memory, Working Memory Training, Science News

Working memory capacity is the amount of information that people can hold in mind at once. All of us have a relatively limited amount of information we can think about at any one time, but there are differences between people in the size of working memory.

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The Ball: Man's Most Important Invention

Dylan Kendall | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Play, Creativity, Invention of the Ball, Balls, Recreation, Inventing the Wheel, Culture News

I will argue however that the humble ball is actually man's greatest invention. Without the ball what would man have bounced against the wall while he was thinking about the wheel?

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Creative Spaces: Where the Wild Things Should Be

Rana Florida | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Creativity, Zoos, Aquarium, Design, Architecture, Creative Spaces, Animals, Outdoors, Slidepollajax, Culture, Recreation, Detroit Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo, San Diego Zoo, Zoo Atlanta, National Zoo, Disney Animal Kingdom, Cincinnati Zoo, Aza, Arctic Ring of Life, Detroit Zoological Socity, Bronx Zoo, Ron L. Kagan, Woodland Park Zoo, National Amphibian Conservation Center, Ron Kagan, Living Desert Museum, Culture News

Ron L. Kagan made international headlines when he voluntarily decided to relocate the Detroit Zoo's elephants to a better home, a sanctuary in California. How exotic animals experience life in captivity is determined by the home that zoos give them. Here are some of the things that make this experience much better for animals.

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What About Your Sexual Intelligence Quotient?

Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Sexual Intelligence, Meditation, Life Force Energy, Sex, Present Moment, Creativity, Awareness, Sexual Energy, Gps-Soul, Emotional Wellness, Mindfulness, Presence, Happiness, Healthy Living News

When we are aware of being at choice regarding our sexual beings, we can tap into and use our sexual energy in a multitude of ways, depending on what we want to create in our lives and relationships.

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When A Composer Loves Another Composer

Daron Hagen | Posted 05.14.2012

Marc Blitzstein's musical DNA -- strict adherence to economy of means, a passion for combining words and music, the belief that music can promote social justice, an abhorrence of pretension -- are woven inextricably into the music I compose.

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Bringing About Innovation: Where To Start?

Elianne Ramos | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Global Innovation Index, Creativity, Stem, Social Innovation, America, Social Revolution, Race to the Top, Educate to Innovate, Innovation, Becoming-Fearless, Latino Voices News

How do we inject some excitement into the learning process so that our students fall back in love with it? How do we improve current educational curricula to bring American children of every gender, age group and ethnicity up to par with students in other nations?

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Kindergarteners Will Actually Like Opera, If You Let Them

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Hi Art!, Creativity, Video, New York Arts Education, Opera, Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène, Slideexpand, Tanya Bonakdur Gallery, Art Education, Arts Education, Impact Creativity, Arts News

Most educational programs, even those with solid art programs, portray art as a reprieve from homework and arithmetic. Frivolous and fun, art is a way...

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Reinventing Your Life: Changing the World Has to Be Fun

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Creativity, Change, Social Innovation, Inspiration, Social Networking, Global Impact, Community, Innovation, Positive Change, Reinvention, Impact News

Art, design, business, and culture have merged. Experiences and products are all about what someone feels. People act or react, attend or purchase, like or follow because they are drawn toward something.

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Can Drinking Make Men Smarter?

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Creativity, Creative Writing, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drinking Smarter, Drinking Creativity, Alcohol Creativity, Alcohol Smarter, Addiction and Recovery, Healthy Living News

I pity the man who is struggling with writing (or any other creative activity) who concludes that drinking is the pathway to creative success and who seeks a solution through drinking.

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One Mom's Journey to Hope for Her Son with Autism

Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Creativity, Motherhood, Autism, Art, Inspiration, Mother's Day, Art Therapy, Fifty News, Writing, Parents News

McNary's son was given a prognosis so dire it left little room for hope. She captured her fear and worry in a large tableau. "That painting was never meant to be displayed. It's too raw," she said.

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Copyright and the Creator

Gizele Rubeiz | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: First Amendment Rights, Copyright Law, Creativity, United States Copyright Office, Creative Rights, Thesis Project, Thesis-Project, College News

One of the least understood principles of copyright is the method by which it is acquired. Copyright exists automatically, as soon as an original work is created in fixed (tangible) form.

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What Does "Out of the Box Thinking" Really Mean?

Liz Ryan | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Creativity, Initiative, Work, Out of the Box, Problem Solving Business, Creativity Business, Business News

Once we climb outside the box, all sorts of possible solutions emerge. We could be tons more innovative than we are, if we'd just acknowledge the fact that traditional American business isn't based on the idea of solving complex problems in clever ways.

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Are You Trading Now For Then?

Ben Michaelis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Life Changes, Now vs Then, Live in the Now, Clinical Psychology, Creativity, Life Change, Change in Life, Change, Change Your Life, Ben Michaelis, Creative Process, Be Creative, Mindfulness, Being Creative, Creativity and Inspiration, Healthy Living News

The anxiety of indecision and indecision of anxiety is far more cumbersome to your spirit than the process of revising, reworking, and rebuilding.

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Creativity And Madness: Are They Inherently Linked?

Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Creativity, Madness, Psychosis, Mental Health, Depression Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Creativity Madness, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Creativity and Madness, Insanity, Gps-Soul, Bipolar, Healthy Living News

The myth that creativity and madness are inherently linked has a certain romantic appeal, but it does little -- if anything -- to promote human well-being.

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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Daron Hagen | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Creativity, Inspiration, Discipline, Teaching, Mothers, Dedication, Hard Work, Culture News

All good works of art require six ingredients: hard work, love, dedication, discipline, craft, and a revealed secret.

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Learning to See the Future First

Jeff DeGraff | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Innovation, Competition, Creativity, Future, Futurist, Strategy, Business, Success, Technology News

All innovation starts as fiction before it moves across the aisle and becomes nonfiction. We do, in fact, believe it when we see it. That's what makes the world's fairs and exhibitions so compelling.

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Imagine That...

Jose Antonio Tijerino | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Creativity, Innovation, Education, Imagination, Latino Voices News

To support my argument, I call as a witness a game-changing, iconic, innovative American scientist named Albert Einstein who said: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination is endless.

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"Keep Your Book Warm" and Other Tips for Fighting Writer's Block

Holly Robinson | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Creativity, Story, Story Board, Homer Simpson, Fiction, Narrative, Point of View, Nonfiction, Descriptive Writing, Plot, Editing, Writer's Block, Reading, Rituals for Writing, Writing Tips, Books News

No matter how long you've been writing, you've probably experienced that panic-induced paralysis known as writer's block. If you want to tame the symptoms of this debilitating condition, here are some home remedies to try.

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