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How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison. 29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE. Nabokov on Inspiration and the Six Short Stories Everyone Should Read. How Einstein Got So Smart – 10 Learning Hacks. How would you feel if many people thought you were the smartest person in history?

How Einstein Got So Smart – 10 Learning Hacks

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies. Most of us are not what we could be.

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies

We are less. We have great capacity. D.school: Institute of Design at Stanford. Critical Thinking On The Web. Top Ten.

Critical Thinking On The Web

What Is Intelligence? Just a Byproduct of Cooperation. What's the Latest Development?

What Is Intelligence? Just a Byproduct of Cooperation.

By developing computer simulations of neural networks that evolved over 50,000 generations, scientists at Trinity University have concluded that intelligence is an evolutionary byproduct of social teamwork. Each neural network, or 'brain', took part in two social dilemmas in which "two players must choose between cooperation and defection during repeated rounds.

Upon completion of either game, each 'brain' produced 'offspring' with other 'brains' that made more advantageous choices during the games. ... Creative Thinking Is a Specific Process That Can Be Replicated. Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges. Fascinated by how brains and creativity work, we frequently share new research on the 99U twitter feed, showing how everything from drinking alcohol, to taking vacations, to moving your eyes from side to side can make you more creative.

Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges

What’s particularly interesting, however, is that most of these studies rely on just a small group of core creativity tests – and you don’t need any special lab equipment to take them. Below, we’ve collected five of the most commonly used creativity challenges for your self-testing pleasure. While creativity “testing” is far from an exact science, trying your mettle at these challenges could yield insight into when, where, and how you’re most creative.

Or maybe it’ll just be fun. 1. Developed by J.P. Hold papers togetherCufflinksEarringsImitation mini-tromboneThing you use to push that emergency restart button on your routerKeeping headphones from getting tangled upBookmark The test measures divergent thinking across four sub-categories: The Art of Complex Problem Solving. A Model of The Creative Process. Created in collaboration with Jack Chung, Shelley Evenson, and Paul Pangaro.

A Model of The Creative Process

The creative process is not just iterative; it’s also recursive. It plays out “in the large” and “in the small”—in defining the broadest goals and concepts and refining the smallest details. It branches like a tree, and each choice has ramifications, which may not be known in advance. Recursion also suggests a procedure that “calls” or includes itself.

Many engineers define the design process as a recursive function: discover > define > design > develop > deploy. Issue 1: What Makes You So Special. Brain & study hacks. Lateral thinking. Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.

Lateral thinking

The term was coined in 1967 by Edward de Bono. [1] According to de Bono, lateral thinking deliberately distances itself from standard perceptions of creativity as either "vertical" logic (the classic method for problem solving: working out the solution step-by-step from the given data) or "horizontal" imagination (having many ideas but being unconcerned with the detailed implementation of them). Methods[edit] Critical thinking is primarily concerned with judging the true value of statements and seeking errors. Eight Ways Goofing Off Can Make You More Productive. The 10 habits of highly creative people, applied to creative companies « Marketing Babylon.

The book Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (previously titled: Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People) contains an exploration of the common personality traits of creative people. The traits are articulated as a series of ten paradoxes. Before listing them, he writes: Of all human activities, creativity comes closest to providing the fulfillment we all hope to get in our lives. Call it full-blast living. Creativity 'closely entwined with mental illness' 17 October 2012Last updated at 06:49 GMT By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Novelist Virginia Woolf killed herself Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people.

Creativity 'closely entwined with mental illness'

Writers had a higher risk of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression, and substance abuse, the Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute found. Ways not to kill classroom creativity. Eleven Classroom Creativity Killers Marvin Bartel - © 2001, updated Apri 3, 2013 ". . creativity scores had been steadily rising. . .until 1990.

Ways not to kill classroom creativity

Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Exam. By Peter Nonacs| On test day for my Behavioral Ecology class at UCLA, I walked into the classroom bearing an impossibly difficult exam.

Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Exam

Rather than being neatly arranged in alternate rows with pen or pencil in hand, my students sat in one tight group, with notes and books and laptops open and available. They were poised to share each other’s thoughts and to copy the best answers. As I distributed the tests, the students began to talk and write. Top 10 Posts of 2012: Deep, Meaningful and Creative Learning. Flickr: CriCristina It may come as no surprise that the ideas that are top-of-mind for educators, parents, and policymakers are the very topics conveyed in the most popular MindShift posts this year. Giving kids the tools to create, teachers the freedom to innovate, making students’ work relevant in the real world, giving them access to valuable technology. T. S. Eliot on Idea Incubation, Inhibition, and the Mystical Quality of Creativity + a Rare Recording. Catalyzing Creativity: 7 Playful Activity Books for Grown-Ups. Creativity/Problem Solving/Criti. 60 ways to stay creative in math.

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