The conventional system of schooling is sometimes seen as “stifling” of creativity. The pre-school, kindergarten and early school years are often the only ages where there is an attempt to provide a creativity-friendly, rich, imagination-fostering environment for young children. Researchers see the importance of fostering creativity because technology is advancing our society at an unprecedented
Creativity requires a challenge to start a flow of new ideas, then a way to capture them. New ideas are fleeting. You need to write them down quickly or they can be gone in a flash. Sometimes, a catchy title for an article, a name brand, a melody, a food recipe, a room arrangement pops
Everyone has creative abilities that operate all the time. You can enhance your creativity by surrounding yourself with diverse stimuli that is changed regularly. Diverse and changing stimuli promote creativity because they get multiple behaviors competing with each other. To boost your creative output, capture your new ideas as they occur, challenge yourself in order
Salvador Dali, the great surrealist, used to grab ideas for paintings from the very fertile semi-sleep state we call the hypnagogic state. He’d lie on a sofa and hold a spoon in one hand, balancing it on the edge of a glass placed on the floor. Just as he’d drift off to sleep, he’d release
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