Fast Company
Your brain has limits. Here are some simple ways to extend your mind, according to science
4 min · · Acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul says that in order to think the intelligent, informed, original thoughts we’re capable of, we can’t rely on the brain alone. Read on to learn how you can… · Shared by 428, including Matt Heinz, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power
Harvard Business Review
What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation
20+ min · · Lessons from the life sciences · Shared by 223, including AI, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Stowe Boyd, John Nosta, Katja Evertz, Vitor Furtado Silva, Brian Ahier
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 💙
Harvard Business Review
Lessons in Innovation from Bowie, Beyoncé, and More
14+ min · · Business can learn a lot from the way musicians operate. · Shared by 78, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Tom Vander Ark, Katja Evertz
datcreativity.com
Divergent Association Task
1 min · · divergent association task take the test about faq contact It involves thinking of unrelated ideas. People who are more creative tend to think of ideas with greater “distances” between them. We… · Shared by 183, including Jason A Miller, Stacey MacNaught, Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social, David Epstein, Katja Evertz, Leo Polovets, Christopher D. Long, Stanford NLP Group, Frank ⌁
Harvard Business Review
How Outsiders Become Game Changers
5 min · · Research identifies four factors behind their success. · Shared by 307, including Kate Nasser, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Antonio Vieira Santos, Tac Anderson, Andreas Staub, Thomas Power, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4
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
Ness Labs
The creative brain: three ways to cultivate your creative thinking
3 min · · Creativity is everywhere around us — in the random colors of an artist’s painting, the verses of profound poetry, or an inspiring sculpture crafted from muddy clay. However, being creative is not just… · Shared by 307, including Chad Underwood, Oscar MacDonald, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Essaadi
Dan Rockwell
Curiosity – Remarkable Practices, Unexpected Benefits
1 min · · Where would we be without curiosity? Curiosity is: Enthusiastic “not knowing”.Willingness to be wrong.Drive to make sense of things.Delight in surprises.Dissatisfaction with the status quo. Curiosi… · Shared by 125, including Matt Heinz, davidabrock, Bill George, Gabriele, Katja Evertz
A List Apart
Asynchronous Design Critique: Giving Feedback
13+ min · · How do you know that you’re giving good feedback? Erin ‘Folletto’ Casali offers a tangible framework for delivering feedback through the lens of the design critique process in this first installmen… · Shared by 122, including zeldman, Rahul Rajeev, Katja Evertz, Val Head, Gabriele, CSS Weekly, KOstas, Chris {he, they} , Oscar MacDonald
Nautilus Magazine
Our Most Effective Weapon Is Imagination
9 min · · In his Theaetetus, Plato remarks to Socrates: “This pathos is proper to the philosopher: It is the thaumazein. And philosophy has… · Shared by 177, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jessel Sookha, Katja Evertz
UX Collective
Ideas I copied to help steal more ideas
20+ min · · Stealing ideas doesn’t have to result in imposter syndrome. If anything, copying helps reveal our most authentic selves. · Shared by 303, including David Garner, Stephanie A Kowalski, Katja Evertz, Christian Hartmann
MIT Press
What 250 Years of Innovation History Reveals About Our Green Future
15+ min · · If history is any indication, an unstoppable wave of competitive innovations is heading our way again. · Shared by 221, including Katja Evertz, Philanthropy News Digest, Paul Kedrosky
UX Collective
Want innovation? Forget invention, learn to execute
6 min · · Innovation is not about invention. Learn how great design plus an execution focus can supercharge your innovation process · Shared by 346, including Loudt Darrow, Christian Hartmann, Konrad Weber, rohit, Gabriele, Jonathan Kogan, Katja Evertz
The New York Times
75 Artists, 7 Questions, One Very Bad Year
· Musicians, authors, directors, comedians, painters and playwrights open up about trying to be creative, and sometimes failing, in quarantine. · Shared by 118, including Katja Evertz, John Schwartz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dirk von Gehlen 🤷🏻♂️, Giorgia Lupi, jennifer daniel, The Daily Heller, Austin Kleon, Andrew Russeth, mastodon.social/@christowski, Nadja Popovich, Mona Chalabi
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