creativity
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Somatic regulation is the practice of using your body to change cognitive and emotional states instead of relying on top-down thinking alone.
Every day we’re presented with what seem like impossible challenges. Issues that you can’t crack, even after weeks, months, or years of trying. How do you approach these challenges? Do you have a strategy that you follow, or do you just hope for the best? There’s a better way to solve impossible problems — improve the quality
A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.
The Lego Ideas team, including its senior model designer, tells Fast Company how they turned 'Gremlins' icon Gizmo into a 1,125-piece set.
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.
Brainstorming, thinking outside the box, working with free reign on a project--they're old creativity maxims, but how well do they really work?
What separates some of the world's most successful people from everyone else? Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli says it involves how they spend their free time. He shares examples from Bill Gates and Leonardo da Vinci.
On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.
Google has launched a new AI image generation tool called Whisk, which allows users to create visual outputs from existing
Can financial incentives turn innovation into a chore? A study of GitHub's efforts to sponsor software coders by Maria Roche and colleagues explores the interplay between motivation and creativity.
Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Success in nature and culture depends just as much on timing as it does on brilliance.
Discover the practice of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman that has changed lives, including a method to find serendipitous answers to questions.
Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.
Fads come and go, but how to create a toy that stands the test of time is the billion-dollar question
You can't predict your own success, but the Equal Odds Rule tells us something important about uncovering creative talent. Read the article to learn more.
Creativity research in psychology reveals 14 ways to increase imaginative and creativity thinking, discover new ideas and solve problems.
Sometimes the search for creative insight requires us to focus, and sometimes it requires us to look away.
You might need help to turn an idea into a project. Most of the time, though, project developers walk up to those that might help and say, “I have a glimmer of an idea, will you help me?̶…
If you've ever stared at a blank page, you know the importance of creative constraints. Learn how to harness limitations for more and better ideas.
The most important tool for any UX designer is a pen and a stack of paper. Why? Because before you even think about designing an interface you should be sitting down to sketch out your ideas. Find out why you should be ditching the computer and embracing pen and paper.
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The challenge is not how to “teach creativity” to children, but rather how to create a fertile environment in which their creativity will take root, grow, and flourish.
What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?
727 votes, 71 comments. The Dr. Seuss Method In 1960 two men had a $50 bet. One of the men was Theodore Geisel a.k.a Dr. Seuss. The other was Bennet…
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Although snarky comments can cause conflict, a little verbal irony also stimulates new ideas.
How do creators find ideas to write about? Poets, artists, and authors alike have been wondering about the source of our inspiration for millennia. But what's the difference between inspiration and idea sex?
A handbook for how to become an expert at framing problems.
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...
‘Structured thinking’ is about building a big answer by asking many small questions
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