Creativity  

Have you been trying to develop ideas for a new product or service? Did you get stuck? Well, List And Twist is a simple technique that might help you out.

The List And Twist technique is one of many that are loosely based on the idea of random stimulation, that is, ...read more

Consider the following (depending on which country you are from you may miss the point in one or two):

"If you see someone doing the impossible, don't interrupt them"

Amar Bose (Bose Corporation)

"Space is not remote, you can get there in an hour if you can make your car travel ...read more

There are TWO KEY CONCEPTS to memorizing a long list of items:

1) Converting each item into an IMAGE as RIDICULOUS and STRIKING as possible.

2) LINKING those images to one another through ACTIONS as RIDICULOUS and STRIKING as possible.

For example, tonight after I returned from work I intended to write 10 ...read more

This is not an episode of Star Trek but one of my favourite techniques for a) generating results b) getting a reaction from colleagues. It is is one of a series in which random stimuli are used and alternative viewpoints are adopted. It works best with well defined problems or ...read more

Wildstorming is the radical cousin of traditional brainstorming, as it turns the process upside-down and inside-out, where strange and bizarre concepts are the rule.

During a wildstorm session, team members suggest absolutely crazy solutions to the core issue which is being examined. Wildstorms are a great place to ponder ideas that ...read more

Have you ever wondered how huge the world is that we live in? Of course you have. The world only ever gets bigger as we see more of it. This start from our youngest age when the comfortable confines of the womb makes place for the slightly more hostile but ...read more

The tools are ready and keen; our bodies, our senses, our minds, our thoughts.

They are the tools that generate our realities.

We find ourselves discovering them anew, during the course of our life journeys, as if they were suddenly introduced to us in those moments of clarity by chance, forgetting that ...read more

If you feel driven, yet overwhelmed by the many diverse life goals you’re having difficulty completing, you’ve likely caught the “curse of the creatives.” Find fulfillment with one of two approaches to goal completion.

Your drivenness is caused by your self-expectation that you should do it all. A ...read more

The actual storage capacity of the human brain has never been measured, although it has been estimated that during our lifetime we store about ten times more information than is contained in all the books in the Library of Congress.
Anthony Smith, in his beautiful book, ‘The Mind’ quotes ...read more

Are people born creative? Is the urge to make things, to draw, to paint, to just put things together, an inherent part of our being? Many say yes, we are born with the desire to create, hence, the thirst for more knowledge. The quest for knowing is paramount to the ...read more