It’s one of the most important skills out there, yet it’s also the most difficult. Mindfulness has so many implications to our lives, both inside and outside of creativity. Mindfulness is about taking control of how we perceive the world. We override the automatic behaviors that dominate our daily life and, instead, we view the
What motivates great inventors? A 1991 study by Ford and Nichols looked into this. They asked 247 inventors to list their top three motivations for doing what they do. The inventors mentioned 24 different goals that motivated them to invent. The top 4 responses were: Mastery, Entertainment, Exploration and Happiness. The goals with the fewest
Getting my Master’s in Creativity & Innovation introduced me to so many ideas that I was never aware existed. Early on at Drexel University, I was introduced to a smaller field of creativity research called “Personal Creativity.” Generally, when we talk about being creative, we mean that we are creating something that the world hasn’t
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.