Visual Notetaking

Employees at a range of businesses are being encouraged by their companies to doodle their ideas and draw diagrams to explain complicated concepts to colleagues.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577362402264009714.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_Top

Killing Creativity: Why Kids Draw Pictures of Monsters & Adults Don't

Age doesn’t necessarily squander our creative juices, but when we make the leap from elementary school to middle school our worldview becomes more realistic and cynical. The question is: what did Jobs and Spielberg do differently? How do we maintain our naiveté?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/killing-creativity-why-kids-draw-pictures-of-monsters-and-adults-dont?page=all

The Creativity Challenge

“The challenges we currently face are without precedent. More people live on this planet now than at any other time in history. The world's population has doubled in the past 30 years. We're facing an increasing strain on the world's natural resources. Technology is advancing at a headlong rate of speed. It's transforming how people work, think, and connect. It's transforming our cultural values. If you look at the resulting strains on our political and financial institutions, on health care, on education, there really isn't a time in history where you could look back and say, "Well, of course, this is the same thing all over again." It isn't. This is really new, and we're going to need every ounce of ingenuity, imagination, and creativity to confront these problems.” Sir Ken Robinson

A gathering of creatives is planned for April 2013 in Taranaki, New Zealand.

The Creativity Challenge is intended to be a three-day gathering for personal, professional, and organisational creativity — a feast of 120 minute [some longer] - concurrent workshop sessions presented by some of the best creativity leaders in New Zealand and world-wide. The forum will expose participants to a wide range of perspectives on the research and practice of imagination, creativity and innovation. And on top of the scheduled programme, there will be evening salons, pecha-kucha, dialogue sessions, music, dancing, and just plain fun.

Intertested? Contact wayne@future-edge.co.nz

a-creativity: -i:creativity

Creativity loves a crisis. Especially at times of crisis we need creativity. Indeed some of the most creative solutions in human endeavour have come about because of a crisis.

But what do we mean exactly, by ‘Creativity’?

http://blog.davidparrish.com/tshirts_and_suits/2012/04/a-creativity-i-creativity.html

This article is based on a presentation "a-Creativity : i-Creativity" by David Parrish at TEDxNapoli on 14 April 2012.

Innovating by the seat of our pants

The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it’s a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-ito-innovating-by-the-seat-of-our-pants.html?_r=2

The No.1 habit of highly creative people

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~Rollo MayMore here: http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/

Jonah Lehrer on How to be Creative

Creativity can seem like magic. We look at people like Steve Jobs and Bob Dylan, and we conclude that they must possess supernatural powers denied to mere mortals like us, gifts that allow them to imagine what has never existed before. They're "creative types." We're not. But creativity is not magic, and there's no such thing as a creative type. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. Anyone can learn to be creative and to get better at it.More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577265632205015846.html

More about habits

Robert Fritz writes "Human beings, by their nature, are habitual. And there is a good reason for this. Habits can make life easier and more convenient. And so the idea of habits, themselves, is this: habits can be a very good thing to have."
But what of bad habits? More here:
https://www.wisepond.com/blogs/2012/03/20/habit-habits?utm_source=sublist&utm_medium=emailmarketing&utm_content=rec1&utm_campaign=aboutyouari

Habits and Creativity

Shared by Shona Glentworth
A habit is something that we do endlessly and without thinking. Imagine if all of us had to think consciously to orient our intentions when we do something in our day to day.

“Your habits are incredibly powerful.” When you are in an environment that supports a habit, you end up carrying out that habit without thinking. If you are interested in habit change, then, you need to become aware of your environment to help stop yourself from behaving mindlessly.”


http://www.josebaldaia.com/intuinovare/?p=4426&lang=en

Talent, Passion and the Creativity Maze

"We live in a world mad for talent. From Hollywood and sports to executive search firms and HR departments around the globe, everyone seeks that special mix of natural abilities and attitudes that will make performance pop. A few months ago, Douglas Conant wrote a terrific blog post on how to find talented candidates for a job. When evaluating a potential hire, Conant looks for a strong mix of three qualities — competence, character, and skill as a team player. He gives great advice on how to find such a person. But he's missing a crucial ingredient."

http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2012/02/talent-passion-and-the-creativ.html#.T0xAJRYLEec.twitter