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Creative Problem Solving Articles

View Exploring Ideation and Creative Problem Solving.

View Let me sleep on it: Creative problem solving enhanced by REM sleep.

View Uses for creative problem solving skills. Conceptual blocks and overcoming them.

View First steps in open-ended problem solving and more.

View Eureka! How Distractions Facilitate Creative Problem-solving.

View Problem Solving Techniques. Flexibility is key.

View Morally Creative Problem Solving. "Even the simplest rules leave gray areas that call for judgment … there are always ‘sticky’ situations where the rules aren’t that helpful."

View Human-Factor Phenomena in Problem Solving.

View Ground rules and the whole brain approach to problem solving.

View Body movements can influence problem solving. "The way you think is affected by your body and, in fact, we can use our bodies to help us think."

View 30 Inspiring Anecdotes to keep your creativity and problem solving fires burning including 'Keeper of the Spring', 'Time To Think', and 'A Short Course in Human Relations'.

Creative Problem Solving Videos

View (8:57 min) Gregg Fraley talks about creative problem solving, his own creative journey, and lessons he learned.

View (8:55 min) This music enhanced powerpoint video shows a combination of mind mapping and problem solving tools.

View (4:34 min) 'Reversing the problem'- a methodology for sparking the creative problem solving process.

View (1:47 min) How To Tap Into Your Intuition

View (18:41 min) Not directly related to problem solving, but this insightful video relates the differences in right brain and left brain thinking and functioning. Jill Bolte uses the example of her own brain stroke experience to illustrate the differences.

Creative Problem Solving Humor

View (2:14 min) Thinking outside the box with Ma and Pa kettle. Lateral thinking in action.

View (1:26 min) Problem Solver - the HR Guy trying his best to hire and motivate his team by explaining the benefits to hiring the right candidates -- ones that can solve problems.

Critical Thinking Articles

View Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?

View Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts

View Eight Barriers to Effective Critical Thinking as a Manager.

View How Good Are Your Critical Thinking Skills?

Critical Thinking Videos

View (5:17 min) Characteristics of a critical thinker and benefits derived from being able to think critically.

View (9:56 min) Critical Thinking Standards of Thought -> accuracy vs. precision (excerpts from the Socratic Questioning Series)

View (2:16 min) Indoctrination vs.Critical Thinking. A music enhanced powerpoint presentation.

Decision Making Articles

View Various approaches to Ethical Decision Making.

View Consensus Decision Making.

View Encouraging Dissent in Decision Making.

View Speed and Tempo. Fearless Decision Making for Startups.

View Mindless Collectives Better at Rational Decision-Making than Brainy Individuals.

View Decision-making under Pressure. What you need to know. What you need to do and avoid.

View Lots of Theories about decision making including cognitive dissonance, confirmation and information bias, sunk cost effect, and bounded rationality.

View Decision-making techniques - Buriden's Donkey and others.

View Barriers In Decision Making.

Decision Making Videos

View (3:56 min) Roch Paryre, Ph.D. describes the challenge of rewarding decision process instead of decision outcome.

View (3:02 min) An example of groupthink illustrated in the tv movie 'Challenger' about the Challenger shuttle disaster.

View (9:04 min) How Framing Changes your Decisions.

View (4:22 min) When Instinct Trumps Reason.

View (3:36 min) Better Decision Making: Outlining an effective decision.

View (5:48 min) Subconscious strengths and the science of 'choking' (Jonah Lehrer). Interesting, but video speed can be choppy.

View (1:46 min) Discovering the role of emotion in decision making (Jonah Lehrer). Interesting, but video speed can be choppy.

View (10:47 min) Derren Brown's recreation of The Milgram Experiment. Study of blind obedience to authority vs. compassion and conscience.

View (9:52 min) Original Milgram Experiment.

View (5:16 min) Effective decision making requires awareness of decision biases. Dr. Roch Parayre gives examples of one decision making bias: overconfidence.

Creativity Articles

View Albert Brooks on Creativity and the Internet

View Why Group Norms Kill Creativity

View Odd Behavior And Creativity May Go Hand-in-hand

View Ideas for Improving Your Creative Abilities

View Read about different ways of generating ideas. Includes creativity tools such absence thinking, reverse brainstorming, assumption busting, and many others.

View Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?

View Creativity tools - An Introduction

View Targeted Breakthrough Thinking (TBT)

View Ten Great Ways to Crush Creativity

View Cartooning and Creativity. The powerful effect of using simple imagery instead of words.

View Happy Emotions Boost Creativity. Whereas positive emotions tend to spur creativity, negative moods can help people focus.

View 6 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay Creative.

Creativity Videos

View (2:19 min) Try weird combinations. Excerpt from Paul Sloane's talk on innovative leadership.

View (27:59 min) The powerful relationship between creative thinking and play.

View (1:54 min) Naps and Creativity.

View (8:19 min) This (super-learning music enhanced) powerpoint video explores using your imagination to gain your dreams.

View (3:37 min) It all begins with dreaming - dream big!

View (20:03 min) Is Creativity Being Driven Out Of Our Education Systems?

Creativity Humor

View (3:52 min) What happens to great creative Ideas.

View (52 sec) The Creativity Company - Thinking out of the box?

Thinking on your feet Articles

View Staying Cool and Confident Under Pressure. Some tips and tactics.

View How to Think on Your Feet (A Trump University article) - Pressure Breeds Success and impromtu talks. Contains tips such as: Don't wait for dire circumstances to test your quick-thinking ability. Test yourself daily.

View Can You Learn to Think on Your Feet? Musicians and actors offer lessons in spur-of-the-moment decision-making.

View Why some people are better at thinking on their feet and how you can develop the skill.

View Think Quickly for a Natural High.

 

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