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The Genius of CAPTCHA: Solving 2 Problems With One Solution

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

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Let Go & Create: Why You Can Start Your Next Creative Project Right Now

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.

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Why “Thinking Outside The Box” Is Completely Wrong

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

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Do Traditions Hurt Creativity?

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

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Simon, Chapter 1 (Beta)

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

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Creativity and Addiction

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

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Computers Are Already Creative

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)

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6 Ways To Supercharge Your Creativity

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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Can Imagination Be Improved?

The way you improve imagination is by influencing the direction/topic or by removing constraints. Imagination, itself, doesn’t need to be improved. You already have plenty of it. People that think they aren’t very imaginative tend to view imagination very narrowly. Imagination is a combination of combining mental imagery, emotions, and storytelling. Generally, we view imagination

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Imagination: Blessing or Curse?

There are 2 aspects of imagination: there’s a cognitive aspect (“what” you are thinking) and an emotional aspect (“how” you’re thinking those thoughts). What you think and how you feel are intimately linked. Here’s how imagination can lead to creativity, happiness, or depression …   Imagination Imagination is your brain’s ability to pull images, ideas,

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