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December 2024
- For a long time productivity has dominated - measuring success by how much and how fast we can produce. But as artificial intelligence increasingly takes on the busywork of modern life, a profound shift is emerging: the value of creativity over productivity. Sari Azout, founder of the knowledge management tool Sublime, argues for reclaiming our chaotic, unpredictable, and deeply human creative process. In a world flooded with instant, AI-generated content, playing it safe is a losing game. Instead, she writes, the future belongs to those who create work that is authentic, original, and resonant.
September 2024
- While it’s often helpful to focus on the most clearly relevant information, this can sometimes constrain creative potential. In contrast, what might seem like irrelevant information could actually offer an adaptive advantage, leading to unexpected insights. From this perspective, the uniqueness of creative individuals lies in their ability to perceive and prioritise information in distinctive ways, embracing the unconventional and unexpected.
June 2024
- Boredom can be a source of creativity and innovation, allowing our brains the opportunity to wander, explore new ideas, and seek out new perspectives. It can encourage us to learn new things, challenge ourselves, and grow. It can even offer the opportunity for reflection, increased self-awareness and self-improvement. Studies have shown that moderate levels of boredom can make us more likely to engage in creative thinking and problem-solving.
April 2023
- Like any other uniquely human ability, imagination is a function of the mind: our creativity is down to us having the kind of mind we have. This means that, if we want to understand how imagination operates, we must trace it to how the mind is structured. Cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind call this structure of the mind cognitive architecture, noted Psyche.
February 2023
- Maria Popova noted that recognition that art works with the raw materials of life undermines the cult of originality, which is itself the great hubris of the creative spirit. As Mark Twain wrote to Helen Keller, “all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources”. Stripping true creativity of this fetish for originality, Emerson anticipatesd Oscar Wilde’s insistence that creativity is the product of “the temperament of receptivity”.
December 2022
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June 2022
- Highly creative people aren’t blessed with a unique gift. All people are natural innovators who bring creativity to the endeavours they undertake, according to psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, who explained how to nurture one's innate creativity through a set of habits, including ongoing learning, open-mindedness, seeking solitude and pure hard work.
July 2021
- It can be tempting to think of creativity as something that arrives in a flash of inspiration, after which solutions immediately appear to our most pressing problems. Usually, the reality isn’t really like that. Researchers from the University of Reading highlighted that innovation tends to be a far more iterative affair. The study found that a series of steady improvements via trial and error is key to innovation over a prolonged period of time, and that great, sudden leaps are pretty rare. As such, perspiration is likely to be as important as inspiration, and this is confirmed by a study from the Kellogg School.
June 2019
- getAbstract notes that organisations of all types seek people who can think creatively, invent innovative solutions and adapt to a changing world. Creativity and innovation expert Sir Ken Robinson – whose TED talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity?, garnered one of the largest audiences of all time – cautions that mass education systems designed to produce workers for the industrial age don’t prepare students to meet new world challenges. He advocates a full-scale transformation of education systems on the premise that intelligence and the creative process are “diverse, dynamic and distinct”.
February 2019
- The School of Life believes that for many of us, our strongest and at the same time vaguest desire is to be more creative. but that when we think about what it would mean to be creative, we arrive at a dauntingly fixed range of jobs.
August 2018
- I have no reader in mind - the reader is me as I re-read - Philip Roth. Roth's words resonate, and feel comfortable, to those of us who are still, slowly working ourselves out on the page. We don't necessarily need comments, feedback...not yet, anyway.
- However, as Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "many people die with their music still in them", so to avoid that sense of feeling, ultimately, unfulfilled, perhaps we should urgently try and find ways to create an authentic outward expression of the inner one, even whenthat vision is problematic, or even nightmarish, as in Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights in the Prado in Madrid.
- Philosophers, artists and writers tell of places that quicken their creative pulse.
- David Shields argued for a blurring of the lines between creativity and plagiarism on Start the Week, arguing that novels are irrelevant and that non-fiction has taken over.
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