The Best Productivity Tricks You Can Learn From Firefighters. How Can I Improve My Listening Skills? A Better Way to Practice. The Science of Practice: What Happens When You Learn a New Skill. Why We Have Our Best Ideas in the Shower: The Science of Creativity - - The Buffer Blog. “I’m not really a creative person”, always struck me as an odd sentence. Could it really be that some of us are born to be more creatively gifted than others? If so, I thought at first, that’s definitely a downer. In school, what was considered “being creative”, like writing or drawing nice pictures was never my strength. It bugged me for a while I have to say. And the following science will hopefully prove it, in case you ever had any doubts about your own creativity. “A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful (or influential) in a particular social setting.” – Alice Flaherty This applies to every field Flaherty explains, including programming, business, mathematics together with the more traditional “creative” fields, such as music or drawing.
Our brain on creativity: The example of free-style rap So, what is actually active in our brain when we are doing something creatively? To make it a bit more understandable: Still, that’s not all there is to it.