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Image: iStock Creativity is commonly thought of as a personality trait that resides within the individual. We count on creative people to produce the songs, movies, and books we love; to invent the new gadgets that can change our lives; and to discover the new scientific theories and philosophies that can change the way we view the world. Over the past several years, however, social psychologists have discovered that creativity is not only a characteristic of the individual, but may also change depending on the situation and context. The question, of course, is what those situations are: what makes us more creative at times and less creative at others?
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity: Scientific American
Idea Seeding Better Than Brainstorming | Tyner Blain
Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi, at OK/Cancel have written an article sharing the creative process they use for creating their awesome strips. Idea seeding is the process where they use time constraints and design/refine cycles to improve their ability to create quality “product.” They also wonder about extending this approach to other areas where brainstorming is normally used.
Welcome to the CreatingMinds site. Our goal is to provide you with real and useful principles , tools , articles and quotes about all matters around being creative and using creativity.
CreatingMinds - tools, techniques, method
Mycoted is a company dedicated to improving Creativity and Innovation for solving problems worldwide, with that in mind, we provide a central repository for Creativity and Innovation on the Internet as a summary of tools, techniques, mind exercises, puzzles, book reviews etc, that is open to all - and can be written by all. Synectics is, in our experience, one of the most useful systems for creative problem solving. It is based on a simple concept for problem solving and creative thinking - you need to generate ideas, and you need to evaluate ideas. Whilst this may be stating the obvious the methods used to perform these two tasks are extremely powerful. Keys to a successful outcome are; Pre-planning ( check that the problem owner has the desire and authority to solve the problem, and also that they are solving the right problem)
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Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations. So you want to write a completely new metaphysics ? Why don't you use FreeMind?
Creativity techniques are methods that encourage creative actions, whether in the arts or sciences. They focus on a variety of aspects of creativity, including techniques for idea generation and divergent thinking , methods of re-framing problems, changes in the affective environment and so on. They can be used as part of problem solving, artistic expression, or therapy. Some techniques require groups of two or more people while other techniques can be accomplished alone. These methods include word games, written exercises and different types of improvisation, or algorithms for approaching problems. Aleatory techniques exploiting randomness are also common.
Creativity techniques - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Computers and Creativity
That's a question best left to the philosophers. It probably all depends on what we mean by computer and what we mean by creativity - and, in the end, what we mean by human. Fascinating subjects but beyond the scope of this website. If creativity is about generating, recombining and sifting ideas then computers can definitely help.
