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Category Archives: Creativity
Is creativity in men and women different?
Yearn to be recognized for creative achievement? Over forty? You may be too late – unless you are female. Creative production in a variety of fields – mathematics, medicine, physics, psychology – increased until age 30 -39 and then … Continue reading
Don’t like criticism? You might feel the same way about creativity.
Alex Osborn, known for founding the Creative Problem-Solving Institute, set up a structure for group creative brainstorming. One rule to free people from creative inhibitions forbid criticism and judgment during initial brainstorming. [1] There is no need to guess why. … Continue reading
The curse of creativity
It just isn’t fair. One person gets to be born with an enviable imagination, the ability to come up with new, innovative ideas, or create artistic masterpieces and the next person does not. Many cringe at the idea that creativity … Continue reading
How is creativity killed?
If teaching students to be creative is one of the highest goals of education, we have a problem. The United States as a nation is becoming less creative. Unfortunately, the scores on are getting lower on the Torrance Test of … Continue reading
Are children more creative?
If you listened to Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk about “How Schools Kill Creativity” [1], you would assume most children enter school tremendously talented and creative and exit at the opposite end of the spectrum. It is an entertaining talk, including … Continue reading
Can creativity be taught?
Anyone working with a program to encourage creativity has found that deliberate efforts to kick start creativity may fail while creative works may still arise in spite of a pedantic atmosphere. The work of the imagination is terribly unpredictable and … Continue reading
The origin of originality
Start any discussions on the origin of creativity and you will quickly find the group divided. On one side people claim it is an innate trait. You are either born with or without it. Keep on pressing this faction and … Continue reading
Time and creativity – friend or foe?
When working with Odyssey of the Mind teams practicing their problem-solving skills, I discovered an interesting aspect of creativity. Students had to come up with a large of number of creative ideas to solve a problem on the spot. However, … Continue reading
Is creativity a right-brain function?
The idea of left brain and right brain thinking originated with the work of a number of physicians in the 1800s. Pierre Paul Broca, a French physician studied patients suffering from aphasia, inability to speak due to brain injuries. He pinpointed … Continue reading
Optimist or pessimist
How does a person’s view of the world –optimistic or pessimistic–affect creativity? Psychologist have noted that the average human has a bias towards optimism. People live with the illusion that most situations will turn out better than they actually do. … Continue reading
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