The Creativity Project

Check out the insight from Hivelogic into Offices and the Creativity Zone. Dan discusses some reasons why the corporate work environment isn’t the right setting to be creative - through countless distractions and pressures to produce results.
Reminds me of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi… where too many demands coming from too […]

Recently, Lifehack.org posted 30 Tips to Rejuvenate Your Creativity submitted by their readers. Here are some of my favorites:
3. Expose yourself. Not after too much vodka. Expose yourself to new art – books, music, paintings – all the time. If you’re a rocker, listen to funk. If you’re a crime writer, read fantasy. If you’re […]

I just discovered a site called Jiibe which offers a free assessment of the type of culture you would like to work in. It also allows you to rate the company you work for…
As a bonus, it shows you the closest matching companies, constantly refining the mix as you answer more questions. […]

Today I am in celebration over my sister (and her husband)’s new bouncing baby boy, Alexander Oscar Bamberg. And, in this ultimate act of creation, I have become an uncle without so much as lifting a finger - even though I am some 4,867 miles away. Now, that’s a miracle. Congratulations and […]

As part of “Do something you’ve always wanted to, but never got around to” month we held the first ever London Creativity Night tonight at the famous Garrison Public House.
The evening was filled with brainstorming and idea generation, building on “sketch-your-ideas”, by introducing the SCAMPER technique:

Substitute
Combine
Adapt
Magnify / Modify
Put to other uses
Eliminate
Re-arrange / Reverse

Key learnings from […]

I had dinner last night with a friend who recently enrolled in a creativity course, and then I ate lunch today with a different friend who is also enrolled in the same course. That was enough for me to look into it, and now I’m enrolled in an “ideas workshop” through the Central Saint […]

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:

1. […]

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