The Creativity Project

Wikipedia’s defines creativity as a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. (Which, by the way, is much better than Merriam-Webster’s attempt, defining creativity as “the quality of being creative”. In Britain that is called sarcasm.)
But where does creativity come from? I […]

Staples of creativity literature:

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael Michalko
Creativity in Business by Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers
Lateral Thinking by Edward De Bono
Hot Spots by Lynda Gratton

Do you have any recommendations for the list?

One thing I have learned is that in order to be creative, it helps to be in the right state of mind - rested, relaxed, highly aware and full of energy. Preliminary work is to develop a routine that is conducive to increasing my creativity.
The proposed routine includes:

Daily exercise. Simple yoga stretches in the […]

The purpose of the creativity project is to explore practical ways to increase creativity in daily life, both in your personal life and at work. As much as I like to believe creativity and planning don’t go together, it strikes me that I do need an approach to properly explore this topic.The basic approach:

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The number one way to stimulate creativity is to do something different.Being a rainy morning in London, I thought, why not walk to work in the rain instead of taking the crowded bus - and see if I could notice something new. I never really paid attention to the patterns of the rain hitting […]

Welcome to the creativity project – a blog exploring different applications of creativity in business and personal life.