Creativity

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Why I Write

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 01.06.2010 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Transcendent, Insanity, Huffingtonpost, Writing, Reason, Intuition, Blogging, Irrationality, The Inner Life, Living News

In the challenges, the fears, the dark in its obstinence, in its unique fearfulness -- we discover the mystery of life. Not as a thing to be dismissed but an infinite source of creativity to be loved.

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Declaring Your Artistic Self

Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 01.04.2010 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Walden Pond, Writing, Creative Ideas, Writer, Artists, Suppressed, American Beauty, Musician, Create, Creative Process, Inspired, Inspiration, Artist, Creative Idea, Sam Mendes, Creatively, Creative, Muse, The Balanced Life, Living News

I believe we are all artists. I cringe and want to shake people when I hear them lament: "I am not creative", "I do not have a creative bone in my body." This is so desperately untrue.

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Here's What I'd Like To Hear More of In 2010

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, New Radicals, Silence, John Cage, Contemplation, Snow, Julia Moulden, The Balanced Life, Living News

An American composer, Cage was one of the leading figures in post-war avant-garde, and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'3", in which not a single note is played.

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American Manufacturing's Fall -Blame It On Business School Students: The New Republic

The New Republic | Noam Scheiber | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Business School, Harvard Business School, Upper-Management, Business News

It's not obvious that you would. Since 1965, the percentage of graduates of highly-ranked business schools who go into consulting and financial servic...

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The Heart of Teaching and Learning: The Holiday Bake Sale That Wasn't

Kate Quarfordt | Posted 12.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Education, Charter Schools, Learning, Bronx Prep, Creativity, Kitchen, Baking, New York News, Teaching, New York News

A few years ago at right around this time of year, my Bronx Prep theater students decided to put on a bake sale. Little by little the truth was sheepishly revealed: no one knew how to bake.

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Boston Globe: Unemployed Parents Trim Christmas Plans With Creativity

Posted 12.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Creativity, Christmas Plans, Unemployment, Children, Cutting Back, Christmas, Impact News

Ten months ago, Kaarlo Maki lost his job managing a quality assurance team for a Boston financial institution. For Maki, 43, who lives in Quincy and i...

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Marketing's Chance to Change the World

Jerri Chou | Posted 12.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Creativity, Marketing, Innovation, Social Innovation, Impact News

Our world is a series of stories and beliefs that we told and convinced ourselves of. This world continues to exist this way because we continue to believe the stories. We can believe in something better.

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Not Just Another Awards Show

Anthea Raymond | Posted 12.15.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Creativity, Nasa, Urban Light, The Envelope, Awards Season, Imagine Mars, Frank Gehry, Awards, Chris Burden, Hollywood Freeway Central Park, Urban Land Institute Los Angeles, Los Angeles News

Does LA's creative community really need another awards show? The surprising answer, based on what I saw at the inaugural Los Angeles Real Creativity awards, is a resounding "yes."

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Living A Poetic Life

Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Who would not want a little more poetry in their life? And I am not talking about drama, I am talking about poetry. And not necessarily Keats either.

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The Art of the Idea: Delving Into John Hunt's New Book

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Creativity, John Hunt, Art, Tbwa, Books, The Art of the Idea, Business, Ideas, Books News

John Hunt's new book, The Art of the Idea, is an inspiring collection of astute observations culled from years of cultivating and nurturing ideas around the world. It is unassuming, yet powerful.

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The Creative Spark

Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Create, Creativity, Inspired, Sydney, Inspiration, Writing, Writing-Poetry, Creative Spark, Poets, New Age Poetry, Performance Poets, Performing, Poetry, Blake, Living News

It took me months and years before I finally gathered enough courage to print off a bunch of my poems, and plonk them furtively on the table of a trusted friend.

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Why Social Entrepreneurs will lead the Next Generation of Business

Jerri Chou | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact

Read More: Creativity, Innovation, Social Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Charity, Ben--Jerrys, Impact News

Social entrepreneurs will lead the future of business. That's a bold claim. Why do I think this? Because it's already happening, and has been happening for the past decade.

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Real Food Rehab: Where To Find Inspiration In Hard Times

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Creativity, Coping With Stress, Beauty, Inspiration, Living Well, Happiness, Stress, Soul Searching, Depression, Coping, Style News

The last two years have been soul-searching times. Throw in the recession and the holidays, and that's a lot of pressure. But there's one thing I've learned in my attempts at self-preservation: it's crucial to seek out inspiration.

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Syfy at MoMA

Dave Howe | Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Creativity, Syfy, Tim Burton MoMA, Imagination, Tim Burton, SyFy Channel, Beetlejuice, Entertainment News

Syfy, for the first time ever, has become a patron of the arts and is thrilled to sponsor the Tim Burton retrospective that just opened at MoMA.

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Writing With Twyla Tharp: I Collaborated With A Genius -- And Survived

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Creativity, Twyla Tharp, Collaboration, Ballet, Richard Avedon, Dance, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, Books News

When you're in a room with Twyla Tharp, it's hard to notice anything else. As her dancers know, a "very nice" from Tharp is a bit more meaningful than it is from almost anyone else.

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Balanced Life -- Try Fun, Quick Exercises To Boost Your Creativity

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Novel-Writing, Writing, Screenwriting, Happiness, Living News

Doing these types of games can boost happiness -- even for people who don't consider themselves to be particularly "creative."

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Find Your 'Everyday Creativity'

Psychology Today | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Tattoo Artists, Art, Language, The Balanced Life, Cognitive Science, Style, Everyday Creativity, Innovation, Tattoos, Happiness, Productivity, Living News

We all marvel at other people's artistic achievements. But most of us fail to nurture our inner innovator. Start living creatively and reap the benefi...

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Two Dreams That Changed Hollywood

Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dreams, Jerry Weintraub, Movies, James Cameron, The New Yorker, Elvis Presley, Vanity Fair, Creativity, Entertainment, Entertainment News

Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.

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Art and the Public Purpose: Does the Country Need a Cultural Policy?

Nick Rabkin | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Creativity, Obama Administration, Artists, Culture Wars, Wpa, Reframing, Arts Policy, Chicago Art, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Chicago News

The divisive and bitter culture war conflicts about race, sexuality, expressive freedom and the role of government in the arts continue to chill the politics of culture, even in the Obama era.

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In Praise of Slow Thinking

Carl Honore | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Milan Kundera, Creativity, Einstein, Fast Thinking, Slow Thinking, In Praise of Slowness, Malcolm Gladwell, Books, Slow, Darwin, Slow Movement, Google, Books News

Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is time to let ideas simmer on the back burner. It yields rich, nuanced insights and sometimes surprising breakthroughs.

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What is Work? America Re-Imagined at Pop Tech (Day 1)

Sharon Glassman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Local

Read More: Creativity, John Fetterman, Kurt Anderson, Poptech, Braddock Pennsylvania, Innovation, Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely, Economics, Social Networking, Social Entrepreneurship, Local News

While many of us believe that more money is a motivator, it's actually a stressor that inhibits performance.

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AZIAM Yoga -- I Am Creative

Alanna Zabel | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Alanna Zabel, Creativity, Reproduction, Yoga, Health, Mantra, Meditation, Stretching Exercises, Sexuality, Living News

Mantra: I Am Creative, Posture/Exercise: The Butterfly Hip Opener Pose

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Real Food Rehab: The Flavor Bible

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Flavor Pairings, Creativity, Eating Well, Cooking Essentials, Cooking, The Flavor Bible, Books News

This book is the kitchen improviser's bible because it lists all the matching flavor affinities for each ingredient! So say you have beets in your fridge and you're not sure what to do with them.

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Overthinking to Stinking: The Dangers of Overly Complicated Marketing

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Marketing, Sales, Creative Capitalism, Business, Retail Sales, Corporations, Corporate America, Business News

A unique marketing idea is like a rock on the side of a riverbank. It has flat spots and rough spots and points and dips and crags and a host of things that make it different from the rest.

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