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Why You Can’t Rush Creativity: How Incubation Works

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Ideas are like stupid children, you need to give them a chance to grow up before you’d actually want to be seen in public with them. Of course, I’m not a father, so perhaps I’m wrong.  Incubation is about giving your ideas time to mature. When you incubate a problem, you’re allowing your subconscious mind

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Constraints: Guiding Your Creativity Towards The Best Solution

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Sometimes creative people fall into the originality trap. They focus so much on originality that they lose focus on the other half of the creativity equation: effectiveness. To be creative, an idea much be both useful and unique.  Listen to the podcast here: Ignoring either side of the equation is a recipe for disaster. Usefulness

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