Creative problems are rarely well defined. Whether you’re an artist, a scientist, or an entrepreneur, when you’re creating something new, you have to deal with a lot of ambiguous problems. Nowhere is this easier to see than in entrepreneurship. When sales go down, you have to figure out why. Is something wrong with the product?
Usually when people set goals, they think about setting a long-term goal, such as “I want to make a million dollars” or “I want to launch a new company this year” then they break those goals into short-term goals. There’s nothing wrong with this strategy. It keeps you focused on the long-term and it ensures
We all hate filling out Captcha forms every time we log into a website, but there’s a certain genius to Captcha that many people don’t know is there.CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. It’s… quite a handful. It came about as a creative response to an ever
In this article, I’m going to show you two famous examples of how naïveté can help you launch a highly successful creative idea: One created an 11 BILLION $ industry while the other lead to one of the most celebrated celebrities of all-time. I’ll also show you 4 reasons why you should be embracing your naïveté right now.
Every time I hear someone say “Think outside of the box” I cringe. Call it a pet-peeve, but this saying is a common misconception in creativity. When you look at the neuroscience of creativity, you see that it’s physically impossible for your brain to “Think outside the box.” That’s simply not how the brain is
Tradition is a transmission of beliefs and activities. When those beliefs help move creative people toward exploration, they’ll benefit creativity. Tradition hurts creativity only when they are presupposing what can and cannot be done. Often, traditions do hurt creativity because they unconsciously carry with it presuppositions about what could work and what will never work. Exploration
The first version of “Simon, The Friendly Psycho” is available to play online. Play the current version here. In this adventure/puzzle game, you play a union rep who needs to sign up employees as the local CostMo Wholesaler. ABOUT THE GAME: It’s a Monkey Island/Sierra Games-style adventure game with puzzles. You’ll use creative-problem solving skills
Addiction can come from the creative personality, the nature of creativity itself, or even using drugs or alcohol for practical purposes but letting it get out of hand. The Creative Personality One of the most stable personality traits of creative people across all industries is that they’re open to experience. Its what allows them to
In the 1960’s a computer had successfully created stanzas of a haiku that were judged by participants as making some kind of sense. That’s the earliest example I know of anything minimally passing as creativity. One of the earliest discoveries in science by a computer came from a niche of organic chemistry. The computer (DENDRAL)
These 6 areas get to the heart of what it means to be a creative person. Change any one of these areas and it’ll significantly effect your creativity for the better. These aren’t simply tactics or creativity techniques. They’re areas where you can make a few small changes for a huge impact. Increase Your Creative Potential
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