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Awaken your senses to spark creativity

Awaken your senses to spark creativity A fun way to spark creativity is to awaken your senses by listening to music and painting what [...]

2019-01-09T14:28:17-08:00

Book Review: The Age of Insight By Eric R. Kandel

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present If you [...]

2023-02-14T12:26:41-08:00

Let the Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything – Book review

If you are interested in unlocking your creativity, you will love David Usher’s new book Let the Elephants Run. You can flip through the book [...]

2018-08-28T20:32:49-07:00

What happens after you’ve ignited your creative spark?

Marshall Goldsmith, a renowned business coach, observes when people initiate a personal campaign to improve themselves — for example, shed a bad habit, [...]

2023-04-11T11:28:43-07:00

Creative Anarchy: Book Review

Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success When I was a designer of marketing communications in a former [...]

2020-10-21T13:07:34-07:00

10 Disciplines of a Learner

Teachers at a middle school in the USA created this list of observable behaviours to help assess the growth of learners and improve the way [...]

2017-06-30T04:42:35-07:00

Are you too Busy to Innovate?

When I ask corporate clients what their biggest barrier to innovation is, they mostly say they are too busy to innovate —must be why this widely-circulated cartoon [...]

2021-09-30T20:19:05-07:00

Looking for Creative Inspiration? Go on a Haiku Walkabout —Here’s how

I participated in a haiku workshop recently at Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival in Vandusen Gardens. Poet Michael Dylan Welch led us on what he [...]

2021-05-21T13:43:14-07:00

April is Poetry Month: Celebrate With These Ideas

What is Poetry Good for? Here’s what Dylan Thomas had to say about poetry: "Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, [...]

2023-04-14T12:23:15-07:00

How to Cultivate Your Creative Brain

Dr  Shelley Carson has devised a useful framework for developing your creative brain, based on findings from neuro-imaging, psycho-physiological studies, and her own research [...]

2021-09-30T20:18:43-07:00
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