The 23 Absolute Best Quotes To Boost Your Creativity. 3 Easy Exercises to Boost Your Creativity. As an entrepreneur, your job is to be one step ahead of the market, always ready with the next big idea.
Whether you want to design a new product or disrupt a market, you need to be able to come up with creative solutions for problems of everyday life. America's Leading Creative Class Metros - Jobs & Economy. The map below charts the creative class across U.S. cities and metro regions.
Nationwide, the creative class totals more than 40 million workers, more than a third of the total workforce, including professionals in the fields of science and technology, design and architecture, arts, entertainment and media, and healthcare, law, management and education. The slideshow below lists the 20 metros with the largest concentrations of the creative class.
Want To Live Longer? Be More Creative. Nursing homes offering activities like writing seminars, poker nights, and pottery lessons might just be on to something.
In a study of 1,349 older male veterans, creativity--serving as an indication of openness, the willingness to try new things and accept new ideas--seems to have predicted a longer lifespan. The Journal of Aging and Health study, which followed the men over the course of 18 years (but did not include any women), found that creative thinking may have led to a 12% reduction in mortality risk. There are a few possible reasons for this, the study’s authors say. For one thing, creativity requires the engagement of multiple neural networks, perhaps strengthening those networks as the brain ages. In other words, creative activities may act as exercises that keep the brain fit. Hobbies or other activities in which we create something new--be that music, food, or furniture--require problem-solving skills and imagination. Why Fighting For Our Ideas Makes Them Better. After studying newlyweds for just a short period of time, psychology researcher Dr.
John Gottman can predict whether the couple will be together in five years with over 90 percent accuracy. Why Doing Awesome Work Means Making Yourself Vulnerable. David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work. By Maria Popova “Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present.
It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t ‘improve.’” Great times and tall deeds for David Byrne this week: First his fantastic collaborative album with St. Vincent (which made a cameo on Literary Jukebox), and now the release of How Music Works (public library) — a fascinating record of his lifetime of curiosity about and active immersion in music. Why Beck’s New Album Is An Experiment in Social Media. Recording artist Beck Hansen has announced the release of an experimental new album that will take music back to the days when recording technology didn’t exist.
It’s a book of sheet music, basically, and McSweeney’s will publish it in December 2012. Beck’s decision not to perform the music himself seemed lazy to some, “hipsterish” to many, but at least one person knew exactly how to handle it. The Role of Intuition and Imagination in Scientific Discovery and Creativity: A 1957 Guide. By Maria Popova “Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.”
Last week, we took in some timeless vintage wisdom on the role of serendipity and chance-opportunism in creativity and scientific discovery, culled from the 1957 gem The Art of Scientific Investigation (public library; public domain) by Cambridge University animal pathology professor W. This Guy Made What Might Be The Coolest House On Earth. 5 Unique Ways to Get Creative Juices Flowing. This article was originally published on FineArtTips.com.
Whether you are a writer, a painter or a creative person of any sort, there’s nothing more intimidating than staring at a blank canvas. At times, it feels daunting and can even cause anxiety. After all, a step in any direction is the first step down a creative pathway… …and what if it’s the wrong path? Why Boredom Is Good for Your Creativity. Like most creatives, you probably have a low boredom threshold.
You’re hardwired to pursue novelty and inspiration, and to run from admin and drudgery. The DNA Of Idea Execution: How Creatives Are Working Today. How Goals and Good Intentions Can Hold Us Back. Join a gym and one of the first things the instructor does is talk about your goals – what exactly do you hope to achieve by hoisting weights and pounding the treadmill?
Apply for an educational course, and you find yourself bombarded with promotional literature. Here’s the future you: suited, booted and smug. What they’re doing – the gym guy and the marketing department – is highlighting end results. They’re hoping to lure you in by showing you what you could achieve, what you can become. A new study by a pair of researchers at the University of Chicago and the Korea Business School shows that this approach has some benefits. Is An Inner Argument Holding Back Your Productivity? Why The Deepest Lessons Take Time To Absorb.