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Less than half of people would describe themselves as creative

Idea to Value

And a series of surveys by Adobe in 2012 and 2016 show just how few people consider themselves to be creative. Here are the answers which these 5,000 people gave: As you can see, less than half of people on average (39% in 2012 and 41% in 2016) would describe themselves as creative. Are you living up to your creative potential?

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A Lateral Way to Expose War Crimes and Fight Disinformation

Destination Innovation

In 2012 in his blog ‘Brown Moses’, he posted articles with videos from the civil war in Syria. The English journalist and blogger, Eliot Higgins, became interested in open source methods in 2011 when he wanted to authenticate video clips from war zones and crime sites.

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Creative people are more likely to cheat

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Research from 2012 suggests that people with higher creativity were more likely to be dishonest than less creative people. People usually associate creativity with positive things, like producing beautiful art , scientific breakthroughs or successful new innovations. But creativity might also have a dark side.

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Why mind wandering is good for your creativity

Idea to Value

In one of the most important recent pieces of research into creativity, Baird et al (2012) wanted to investigate how different activities affected creative performance. In one experiment , the majority of men would actually give themselves electric shocks instead of allowing themselves to become bored.

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Functional fixedness bias, and how to overcome it

Idea to Value

As described by Anthony McCaffrey in 2012 , the GPT asks a series of two questions to participants when they are being challenges with describing an object: “Can this be decomposed further?”. One potential method to overcome functional fixedness is called the Generic Parts Technique. Does this description imply a use?”.

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Top Posts of 2022

Digital Tonto

Top Posts of 2012. If anything, we’ve learned how […]. The post Top Posts of 2022 first appeared on Digital Tonto. Related posts: Top Posts of 2017. Top Posts for 2014. Top Posts Of 2020. Top Posts of 2013.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

In 2012 Lego launched ‘Lego Friends’ with a more realistic ‘mini-doll’ Sales to girls tripled. As recently as 2011 90% of Lego’s users were boys. Lego commissioned detailed ethnographic studies to determine why this was. They examined differences between how boys and girls play. Collaborate to innovate.