John Cimino of Creative Leaps has devised a quiz based on two lists of competencies. The first is a list that Eliot Eisner from Stanford University developed on how the mind processes art Qualitative relationships in the absence of rules Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal Learning to explore possibilities within a medium [...]
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Posted in Creativity and Innovation on Apr 30th, 2008
Rosanne Cash has written a beautiful and eloquent description of her creative process on a New York Times blog: …as I get older I have found the quality of my attention to be more important, and more rewarding, than the initial inspiration. I?ve found that the melody is already inherent in the language, and if [...]
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Posted in Science on Apr 30th, 2008
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth. The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory ? the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory [...]
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