SPIN
Talk Talk's Mark Hollis Found a Higher Truth Through Experimentation
5 min · · Shared by 7, including Neil Hart 💙
Mental Floss
How Kenny Loggins Became The King of '80s Movie Soundtracks
7 min · · After helping to define the supremely chill “yacht rock” sound of the 1970s, Kenny Loggins headed full speed into the world of 1980s movie soundtracks. · Shared by 190, including Bruce Lawson, Neil Hart 💙
faroutmagazine-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
David Byrne's warning about the internet ruining creativity
· Shared by 8, including Neil Hart 💙
Brain Pickings
Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
4 min · · “Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?” · Shared by 655, including Sergio Caredda, Gabriele, Jane, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Neil Hart 💙, Charles Duhigg, Dennis Schvejda, Katja Evertz
creativeboom.com
What’s catching the eye of Gen Z? Here we look at the visual trends their habits are shaping
5 min · · Released to celebrate Picsart's 10th anniversary, this visual trends report has the skinny on what Gen Z is responding to right now. · Shared by 9, including Neil Hart 💙
Farnam Street
Daniel Dennett's Most Useful Critical Thinking Tools
6 min · · We recently discussed some wonderful mental tools from the great Richard Feynman. Let's get some more good ones from another giant, Daniel Dennett. · Shared by 1405, including Gabriele, Katja Evertz, Neil Hart 💙, Thomas Power, maxadorno, Ceferino Díaz, Scott Monty
ScienceAlert
Scientists Invented a Simple New Test For Creativity, And You Can Try It Out
2 min · · What makes one person more creative than another? Creativity is hard to define and perhaps even more difficult to measure, but scientists think they've come up with a remarkably simple way of… · Shared by 202, including Neil Hart 💙, Mauro Toselli, Lee Keyes, Esther Schindler
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity
5 min · · Are you good at changing perspectives? If so, it may benefit you in more ways than you imagine. · Shared by 414, including Nicolas Babin, Mark Kaigwa, Carly, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Andreas Staub, Howard Getson, Harold Sinnott, Neil Hart 💙, AI, Adrian Swinscoe, Vala Afshar, John Hagel, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Nir Eyal
Fast Company
The world’s most creative people have this one thing in common
4 min · · Researchers used artificial intelligence to study the careers of 4,500 directors, 70,000 scientists, and 2,000 artists. The most successful among them share an important trait. · Shared by 191, including Neil Hart 💙, Nige Roberts-Willson, Ces Michelin, Bob E. Hayes, John Paul Caponigro
Fast Company
This is how to truly unlock your creativity
3 min · · A neuroscience expert and author of ‘Smarter Tomorrow’ explains how we can trigger more creative output from our brains. · Shared by 214, including Ian M Calvert, Katja Evertz, Kelly Hungerford, Neil Hart 💙
Ness Labs
The science of eureka moments
4 min · · Eureka moments can lead to creative discoveries, the triumphant completion of a project, or the sudden, clear insight into how to make your business succeed. Let’s have a look at the scientific… · Shared by 368, including Stef Walter, Neil Hart 💙, Anne-Laure Le Cunff
bond.org.uk
How can we use images of hope to campaign for human rights?
3 min · · What is the picture we want people to see when they think of human rights? This new project from Fine Acts and hope-based communications sought to answer the question with a series of new images. · Shared by 6, including Neil Hart 💙
Aeon+Psyche
To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’
5 min · · Whether grieving a death or connecting to colleagues, creativity enables an artful life, according to Chinese philosophy · Shared by 1034, including Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, Liv 😷, Matthias Lampe, Neil Hart 💙, David Pennington, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Dr Skye Cleary, Jessel Sookha, Sergio Caredda, Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, John Hagel, Alf Rehn, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Miguel Angel Escotet, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
Open Culture
An Atlas of Literary Maps Created by Great Authors: J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & More
2 min · · Plot, setting, character… we learn to think of these as discrete elements in literary writing, comparable to the strategy, board, and pieces of a chess game. But what if this scheme doesn’t quite… · Shared by 116, including Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz
INSEAD Knowledge
How the Discomfort of Paradox Can Unlock Creativity
· The transformative power of holding the tension of opposites and learning to live with contradiction. · Shared by 162, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Lee Keyes, Doug Sundheim, Neil Hart 💙, Matthias Lampe, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Katja Evertz
youtube.com
How Far is Too Far?
· Can A.I. make music? Can it feel excitement and fear? Is it alive? Will.i.am and Mark Sagar push the limits of what a machine can do. How far is too far, and... · Shared by 161, including Martin Ford, Sam Maule, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, @kevinctofel@hachyderm.io 🇺🇦, Antonio Vieira Santos, Francesco Corea, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nicolas Babin, Carla Gentry 🎶, Neil Hart 💙, Bare Metal Gamer 💜💙🖤