Creativity, Imagination, and Ideation

(How to Develop Your Creative Side and Generate New Ideas)

Articles

	Does Your Room Inspire You? How do you feel whenever you are in it? Is it a place that inspires you?
	Creative Renewal: Emptying your mind for creative renewal. How to get over a creatively DRY period and refresh your mind.
	Temporarily Unplugged: A Good Idea to Foster Creativity?
	The Creativity Crisis. For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong and how we can fix it.
	How Being Busy Means Not Being Creative.
	Tools to help you become more creative, devise imaginative solutions to problems, and spot opportunities that you might otherwise miss.
	How Group Think Stifles Creativity.
	How to Be More Creative - Ways Anybody Can Learn to Think through Questioning and Imagining.
	Blog post on singer-songwriter Neil Young and his creative process. Then find more insights and a video interview with Charlie Rose -> here (note: the interview starts at 4:05). The blogger says of him: Neil Young has a direct line to his emotions. His creativity is not over-thought, over-prepared or forced.
	Albert Brooks on Internet and its Impact on Creative Expression.
	Why Group Norms Kill Creativity
	Odd Behavior And Creativity May Go Hand-in-hand.
	Different ways of generating ideas including absence thinking, reverse brainstorming, assumption busting, and many others.
	Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?
	Targeted Breakthrough Thinking (TBT). What this thinking style is and how to use it.
	Ten Great Ways to Crush Creativity and Hamper Innovation. A how-not-to guide for leaders.
	Cartooning and Creativity. The powerful effect of using simple imagery instead of words.
	Happy Emotions Boost Creativity. Whereas positive emotions tend to spur creativity, negative moods can help people focus.
	Six(6) Simple Things You Can Do to Stay Creative.
	Dream Incubation - an effective tool to help you see things through a different lens and stimulate extraordinary thinking and creativity.
	Why love can make you more creative.
	How to strengthen your organization's creative core.
	Spark better creative thinking with higher ceilings.
	The brain chemicals that enhance creativity.
	Becoming More Creative (including the impact of exercise and nutriton on creativity).
	Five (5) Ways To Boost Your Creativity Using Brain Science.
	Cultivating Creativity: 10 Ways to Think Like a Child.
	Clearing Clutter Opens the Mind.
	The Worst - I mean BEST - Idea in the World.
	Is constant stimulation hurting our creativity - and the economy? Scott Adams (the creator of the Dilbert comic strip) discusses his ideas about the benefits of boredom.
	Creativity for the Cautious.
	How Creative Excursions and "Not-Thinking" Can Lead to Eureka Moments.
	Fear and Creativity.
	Spark Your Creativity Via Your Intuitions. Your intuition can lead you into a world of novel ideas, experimentation, and brainstorming that will perk up your work life and stimulate innovation and problem-solving.

Blogs

1. Dose of Creativity

A really cool and interesting blog chock full of a diverse mix of all things creative sprinkled with inspired hints and tips.

Don't miss the 'Everyday Creative' section where blog author Melanie takes you along on a year long personal journey as she explores being more creative.

2. Applied Imagination

A thought-provoking blog exploring ideas about creativity, creative thinking, creative problem solving, innovation, applied imagination, education, creative studies and more.

You'll also find details about creativity events and workshops in Connecticut and nearby vicinity. Be sure to also check out blog author Steve Dahlberg's website http://www.appliedimagination.org.

Videos

	Try weird combinations. Excerpt from Paul Sloane's talk on innovative leadership.
	The powerful relationship between creative thinking and play.
	Naps and Creativity.
	This (super-learning music enhanced) powerpoint video explores using your imagination to gain your dreams.
	Is Creativity Being Driven Out Of Our Education Systems?
	Edward de Bono on creative and logical thinking. What is is and what it is not. What inhibited creative progress in China.
	How creativity is being strangled by the law. Larry Lessig, a lawyer for the Nets, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture.
	How To Stimulate the Creative Process. Six simple steps.
	Twyla Tharp (Choreographer) advice on being beware of hype and trusting your instincts.
	Musician and songwriter Nick Cave discusses his own creative process.
	Daniel Pink Speaks About Exercising Creativity at Your Job.
	Harvey Mackay on Creativity Killers in the Workplace.
	Creating a Culture of Innovation. To foster it, managers must look both outward and inward.
	Some examples of clever and artistically creative advertisements.
	How the Brain Makes Creative Connections.
	How To Stimulate the Creative Process. Get your artistic juices flowing with these strategies.
	Building Creativity in the Workplace (Getting Unstuck in Your Thinking).
	How to find and develop your own inner creativity with Tony Buzan (creator of the mind mapping technique).
	Acquiring a Creative Mind.
	Becoming Creatively Obsessive. Greg Fraley talks about intentionally developing creative habits of mind.

Humor

	What happens to great creative Ideas.
	The Creativity Company - Thinking out of the box?
	Killing good ideas can harm your future.
	Dilbert: Predictable and Changes.

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