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Happiness is linked to higher creativity

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This would indicate that happiness and creativity have a more short-term interaction, with happiness perhaps making it more likely that someone will engage in creative activities, thereby producing creative output, while also making them better at coming up with more original, divergent ideas during that time.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

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A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. Another 2012 study showed that pretend play and creativity were also linked. Another 2012 study showed that pretend play and creativity were also linked.

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What impact does sleep have on creativity?

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In a 2012 study , participants were tasked with solving a challenge while a specific odor (smell) was in the room. In the same year, other research showed that having 8 hours of sleep resulted in more than twice as many people discovering insights to solve cognitive task problems compared to just resting when awake.

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Employee engagement and innovation

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Researchers across the world agree that engaged employees drive the culture of true innovation in successful companies. What is employee engagement? Even leaders who do value their employees frequently mistake employee satisfaction for employee engagement. Gallup employee engagement survey results. Source: Kronos.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

The scope and strategy of each partnership are in keeping with the IEA Shared Goals of energy security, environmental protection and economic growth, and engagement worldwide. Budgets for hydrogen and fuel cells maintained their share at 3% for 2012-2018 to increase to 4% in 2019 and 2020.

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What is a creative “Flow State”? And how can I achieve it?

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One of the best ways is to engage in Deliberate Practice , where you are working actively to develop specific abilities and review progress, rather than just doing repetitive exercises. A 2012 research paper by Ullén et al., How does someone develop the skills to develop further and achieve flow?

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Crowdfunding Efforts in the Wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria and the Earthquake

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It could be used to engage people in activities like in micro-tasking as you do on Amazon’s MechanicalTurk. After Hurricane Sandy in 2012 , lots of neighborhoods turned to crowdfunding to help them replace materials that they lost in the storm: clothes, household goods, and damaged streets and basements.