Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Left Brain - Right Brain Advertisements
Curioser and Curioser
Paul Nurse [Nobel Laureate] on Creativity
Monday, March 28, 2011
IDEO's Deep Dive
A Lesson in Engaged Artistry
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Creativity Habit: Courage
Alan Black and TED Talks
Thursday, March 24, 2011
12 Sparks for Heads-Up Creativity
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Turning learning right side up
For too long, we have educated people for a world that no longer exists, extinguishing their creativity and instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. The principal objective of education as currently provided is to ensure the maintenance and preservation of the status quo—to produce members of society who will not want to challenge any fundamental aspects of the way things are. Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching, there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. Being taught is, to a very large extent, boring and much of its content is seen as irrelevant. It is the teacher, not the student, who learns most in a traditional classroom.
http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/47.02.TurningLearning
Borrowing Brilliance
http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/63.02.BorrowingBrilliance
The Power of Passionate Creatives
Some of us have been fortunate enough to pursue our passions as our professions. Most of us have not.
But all too often those who are passionate about their work are frustrated with their employers and bosses. They are not satisfied. Far from it. They want to do more, but they feel held back.
This Change This manifesto is for them — the “passionate creatives” of the world. Together passionate creatives have more power than they realize.
But that power comes from a surprising place.
http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/70.06.PassionateCreatives
How to be creative
http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/6.HowToBeCreative
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Cultures of Innovation
http://actionablebooks.com/videos/stephen-shapiro-cultures-of-innovation/
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Sense of Wonder Camp
More creative education. http://senseofwondercamp.com/Home_Page.html
The reDiscover Centre
reDiscover recycles everyday discards donated by business and gives them new purpose as hands-on learning materials.
reDiscover is a community art center, reuse warehouse, gallery and event space.
Check it out here: http://www.rediscovercenter.org/
Creative education at its best!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Are you a maverick?
Be a Maverick.
But I Ain't No Maverick,
Don't Want to Be,
and Besides I Would Lose My Job If I Was.
Have you ever had this conversation with another employee or internally with yourself--the good faithful employee and the rebel self who wants to fly like an eagle?
I know I did several times in the earlier years of my working life in the early 60s and since occasionally.
When I was first inspired to be more creative, thanks to Edward de Bonos book, NEW THINK I began my Walter Mitty fantasy life of being or becoming the great creative person.
Within the next couple years I began to read other similar authors and discovered there were researchers, psychologists and teachers who believed people could be taught to be more creative.
The popular books then and now about how to become more creative all seem to focus on the reader becoming or being a maverick, a risk-taking, rule- challenging, dreamer, who sacrifices everything so they can create. Walt Disney, Tom Edison, Charles Goodyear, painters, sculptors, writers, designers were always used as role models for the mavericks-in-training.
Over the past few years I have begun to challenge this approach of trying to make everybody a maverick, a top or bottom 2 or 3%- er. Using the absolute tops, the most successful, the breakthrough thinker or idea finder as role models is I believe a major reason why the work of so many, many writers, researchers, teachers, trainers and consultants has produced little change in the acceptance of creative thinking or the willingness to develop and apply the creative thinking and creativeness of the typical person, the other 94%.
Scott Adams has made a fortune writing and drawing daily, example after example of how creativity and creativeness are killed or squelched in the typical workplace. Book after book has criticized managers, bosses even leaders or blaming institutions for being killers of creativity.
Simple fact, not everyone is a Micheal Jordan, Celine Dion, Bill Gates. Not everyone possesses their natural talents, skills, drive or desire or just plain good luck. While at the same time everyone of us can be and is far more creative then we are recognized for or allowed to be the 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 48 to 50 weeks a year, 30 to 50 years of our lives we give to our job or working. Yet watch us when we go home and see how creative we are in our hobbies, part- time jobs, volunteer work or with our families and friends.
Point 1
It is time for each of us to accept that we are more creative.
Point 2
It is time for each of us to apply our natural creativeness.
Point 3
It is time for each of us to spend some time regularly to further develop our creative thinking and problem solving skills.
Point 4
It is time for each of us to ask for more creative assignments or opportunities to be creative in our work
Point 5
It is time for each of us to ask for help and support from our fellow employees, supervisors, managers and bosses to use our creativity and further develop it at work.
For too long we have been blaming the management for not doing it for us or for doing it to us.
Do our fellow employees, supervisors, managers and bosses reject our ideas kill our ideas (deliberately or indirectly) refuse our ideas tell us to stick to the plan
Do the job you are paid for - stay in line
No doubt this happens.
You and I do it with our spouses, children, neighbors, friends and total strangers every day. It is natural for the greatest majority of people to prefer the status quo, the as we have always done it syndrome.
To be more creative we simply need to step out of line, get out of the box, draw outside of the lines. Yet when we do these we tend to expect things to change for the better instantaneously. We want everyone else to change. Yet we resist change. Actually we tend to resist being changed by other people, outside influences, systems, situations, bad or good luck.
That is another of the major problems with increasing the amount of creativity used in our daily lives. We expect others to change to our solutions and change instantly. Too often our ideas are simply that. Ideas. They aren't solutions. They are ideas, thoughts, suggestions, opinions. They are NOT worked out ready to be applied solutions.
Therefore others who don't see, feel, smell, taste, touch, sense the same way we do resist our ideas.
What can you and I begin to do? choose to work at being more creative
choose to accept that we can improve and expand our creative abilities.
work at taking our ideas to solution more and experiment with them before we expect others to immediately accept them.
work more at doing small things more creatively
stop trying to become a MAVERICK or a GIANT and focus on becoming a more creative YOU
ask in less threatening ways for help and support in being creative
ask in less threatening ways for opportunities to work on more creative work.
work on your current job more creatively
accept that you fantasize about being a giant, a maverick, a hero/heroine,
breakthrough thinker and work at becoming a stronger, better, more creative you.
Who knows!
By doing these for 1 days, a year, 5 years you will become the next MAVERICK that we write about for others to use as a role model.
To be more creative simply choose to be. Then be. Then support everyone else in being.
Very few of us will change the world. Yet we all can change ourselves.
The funny thing is when we do that the world somehow changes too.
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Learning to Change
http://www.schooltube.com/video/003fa63af9c844f1b824/Learning-to-Change
The Creative Personality
Creativity researchers have long-ago accepted the fact that creative people are complex. Almost by definition, creativity is complex. Creative thinking is influenced by many traits, behaviors, and sociocultural factors that come together in one person. It would be surprising if all of these factors didn't sometimes, or even most of the time, appear to contradict one another.
More here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/creative-people_b_829563.html
Fostering a Creative Environment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjkVUw9DVU
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Use art to turn the world upside down.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html
Friday, March 4, 2011
We can all be creative
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-m-eger/we-can-all-be-creative_b_830100.html?ref=fb&src=sp
Danny Boyle on Inspiration
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6110524433218764527
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
You can draw
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/02/you_can_crtainly_draw_better_t.html