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A Creativity software that takes creativity to the next level

2011-10-17T07:30:00.000-07:00

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Use new link--Brain Tamer--in our Link list

2010-02-27T23:23:00.000-08:00

Click on the link Brain Tamer

in our link list for cool brain

games and exercises.

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Albert Einstein: Creativity Quote

2010-02-26T10:01:00.000-08:00

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

The above quote is on the front cover of "Applied Imagination" by Alex F. Osborn, a personal favorite of mine

Don't multitask Multithink instead

2010-02-26T08:15:00.000-08:00

I expect you are familiar with multitasking: the ability to perform more than one task simultaneously. Managers who like to overwork their employees love multitasking. They assume that if their employees are performing three tasks simultaneously, they'll work three times as fast.

The logic in that assumption is so thoroughly flawed, it is hard to believe that intelligent managers accept it without question. Perhaps they are too desperate to improve employee productivity.

Logic suggests two points:

1. No one can actually perform several tasks simultaneously. Rather they quickly switch from one task to the other. Hence, all things being equal, multitasking should be no faster than monotasking (that's my own word, incidentally).

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"10 Steps for Boosting Creativity

2010-02-25T11:30:00.000-08:00

10 Steps for Boosting Creativity

by Jeffrey Baumgartner

Johann Sebastian Bach

1. Listen to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. If Bach doesn't make you more creative, you should probably see your doctor - or your brain surgeon if you are also troubled by headaches, hallucinations or strange urges in the middle of the night.

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"10 Creativity Myths"

2010-02-24T21:25:00.000-08:00

Over the years, I have heard a lot of people say a lot of daft things about creativity. Some of those things, I hear again and again. What's worse, a lot these daft notions – or myths – about creativity are detrimental to the creative process. So, let's end this once and for all. Below are 10 creative myths. If you share these with everyone in the world, these myths will go away.

1. “I am not creative”

I have heard a lot of people say precisely that: “I am not creative”. The truth, of course, is that we are all creative. That's what differentiates us from Parrots who can say clever things put couldn't have a creative idea if their lives depended upon it. The truth is we are all creative. And while some people are naturally more creative than others, we can all have very creative ideas. The problem is, as we grow older, most of us learn to inhibit our creativity for reasons relating to work, acceptable behaviour and just the notion of being a grown-up.

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How not to absorb the thoughts and information from “Applied Imagination” by Alex F. Osborn

2010-02-23T13:54:00.001-08:00

No, we cannot absorb the thoughts and information from this valuable creativity resource book just by holding it to our heads and pointing at it. Instead, we must:

read it
study it
look at the material again
practice and re-practice its concepts

The only test on this material will be if you can use some of the concepts successfully to be more creative. And as I like to say,
“Being creative breeds more being creativity in yourself and the people around.”
Remember to ask questions anywhere applicable in your life.

What is a great book full of questions to stimulate creativity?

2010-02-23T11:09:00.001-08:00

The book is Applied Imagination by Alex F Osborn. If you want to buy a personal copy at a Amazon used bookstore of equivalent store. My copy was copyrighted in 1963.
Osborn calls using questions for creativity as Questions as spurs to ideation.
Osborn says, “Questions can be used fruitfully in the pre-processing of a problem for brainstorming. Take the question of how to make a better car. This is too general for efficient attack. To narrow our target, we might ask questions like ‘what to add to a car?…..what to eliminate? etc.”
Osborn adds some general categories of questions to ask

By way of adaptation?
modification?
substitution?
addition?
multiplication?
subtraction?
division?
rearrangement?
reversal?
division?
combination?

with various examples. For creativity practice the principles of including these type of questions is essential. For me, the use of questions has to be the main tool in anyone’s creativity tool bag
For excellent software that includes, among other creativity tools these categories of questioning, see Thought Office, especially eXpertExpander Plugin Module Thought Office offer many creativity at their home page. It is well worth checking out. Santa (well actually our middle son Darren) brought me Some Thought Office software for Christmas 2009. Thanks, son,

Alex F. Osborn at Wikipedia

Creativity: Questions and Answers

2010-02-17T14:20:00.000-08:00

The subject of creativity has fascinated me for many years.

How do I get new ideas?
Where do new ideas come from?
Why are some people so creative while others couldn't find a new thought if it was sitting on their lap?
Is creativity magic?
Is it only for the more intelligent people that consent to live among us?
If I am not creative, why do authorities refuse to let me plagarize?
Do professional authors who plagarize get into trouble?
Is creativity related to diet, exercise, who-you-know?
What is the role of questions in creative efforts?
Why do so many people resent having their material copied? (I thought that in a way it was an honor. What do you think?)
Is it possible to hide the source of ideas that are copied?

A few partial answers, subject to revising:

Mainly by changing, combining, or revising old ideas.
Everywhere, 24/7, although paradoxically, ideas forget to occur for long periods of time, even longer if we take it personally and complain.
Some people apply the principles of creativity; some don't even know what what those principles are? If you something who doesn't know any of the principles of creativity; I recommend an other book: Applied Imagination by Alex F. Osborn (My copy is copyright 1963, 3rd Edition, 31st printing, and of course, out of print, so expect to pay more than original price of $7.95; several years ago I paid just under 4X that price at a used book store I found on amazon.com. If you want modern creativity guidance (creativity software for purchase, click on the Thought Office link to right.
No; it is subject to logical procedures. However, we must recognize that ideas will show up unexpectedly, day or night.
No.
Because plagarism is cheating, the stealing of ideas. It is possible to use the ideas of others if you give them credit for their ideas, i.e. footnoting)
Probably, but I haven't heard many details.
Browing the Internet we can find sources of information that connect healthly bodies to healthy minds (necessary for better creativity I believe).
Everything. See Osborn's book for importance of questions
See answer #6.
Unlikely, I think.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Edwin H. Land

Edwin H. Land at Wikipedia

Scott Adams: Using Creativity for Satire

2010-01-24T15:22:00.000-08:00

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

Scott Adams

http://thinkexist.com/

(Then search "Scott Adams")

Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.
(Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

Read about this amazing cartoonist and satarist, creator of Dilbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert