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To be creative can be as simple as seeing something everyone else sees, but thinking what no one else thinks about it. 
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Scientists have determined that people in a relaxed state and a good mood are far more likely to develop innovative or creative thoughts. And companies are now taking advantage of this fact. Lehrer points to 3M, which started out making packaging tape and has now expanded into other sectors including electronics and pharmaceutical delivery. Companies like 3M allow their employees to have an hour a day to do whatever they want: work on a side project or tinker with a hobby.
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I scrolled through my RSS feeds this morning and up popped the kind of neuroscience article that I absolutely cannot resist: Imaging finds creativity uses both right, left brain, in Psych Central. ...
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In a new Cerebrum article researchers describe their work on musical creativity and the brain.
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Creative thinking and expression involves many skills and cognitive abilities, which can be enhanced by all sorts of experiences, even video games.
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Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work.
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The big difference is the kind of environment they thrive in, says Susan Cain, author of a new book on the creative power of introverts. Now more than ever before, says Cain, Western society approves more of extroverts. CREATIVITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=creativity
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New research finds problems that require an "aha moment" to solve are best approached during a time of day when you’re not at your peak.
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Want to think outside the box? Try actually thinking outside of a box. In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking and found that the instructions actually worked.
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Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries -- the arts and humanities.
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"There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can redesign the way our economy works" Via ddrrnt, ABroaderView
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For a company, fostering a creativity-friendly environment means coaxing serendipity out of her hiding place. By making spacial plans that force people to interact in a natural way, e.g. creating cross traffic by placing bathrooms at a central point, people will literally run into new ideas.
Roberta Faulhaber's curator insight,
February 8, 2013 5:44 AM
ways to engineer space and environment to enhance serendipitous connections, one of the keys to creativity in the workplace
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Yet another brain myth bites the dust, joining we only use 10 percent of our brain, and other pseudoscience nonsense that tries to cram people in nice...
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Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they’re interwoven, they're tangled.
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McCaffrey believes his Obscure Features Hypothesis(OFH) has led to the first systematic, step-by-step approach to devising innovation-enhancing techniques to overcome a wide range of cognitive obstacles to invention.
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Tips to fuel creativity and invention--geared to your brain type. Truly innovative thinking happens differently for different people. For you, it may happen in a "Eureka!" moment (like Einstein's theory of relativity), or it may take years of trial and error and painstaking research (Gregor Mendel discovering genetics). Via The BioSync Team
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There will always be a wild and unpredictable quality to creativity and invention, says Anthony McCaffrey, a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, because an "Aha moment" is rare and reaching it means overcoming formidable mental obstacles. But after studying common roadblocks to problem-solving, he has developed a toolkit for enhancing anyone's skills.
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“There’s kind of this common idea that too much knowledge can be a hindrance to creativity,” Huber says. It might be a child or an outsider who comes up with a brilliant new way to solve a problem, for example. Maybe it’s because experts know too much that they’ll stick with a familiar idea—like a familiar word—rather than coming up with something new. “To be creative, you need to use the knowledge related to the problem but not be biased to give the same answers that work for other problems.”
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New research finds we’re better able to identify genuinely creative ideas when they’ve emerged from the unconscious mind.
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