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If You Want to be More Creative, Mix With More Creative People

Destination Innovation

This is comfortable and reassuring but it inhibits creativity or independent thought. If you want to be abnormal and creative then you need to widen your circle to include disparate ideas and contrarian thinkers. Many creative people congregated there. Some creative geniuses work alone but many work in tandem.

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Boost Creativity by Thinking in Pictures

Destination Innovation

You can use these pictures as a random stimulus where the group calls out ideas based on a picture. In small groups of two or three people pool their ideas and develop one or two to feed back to the whole group. In small groups of two or three people pool their ideas and develop one or two to feed back to the whole group.

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16 scientifically proven ways to enhance your creativity

Idea to Value

People often think that science and creativity are not related. In fact, over the past few decades , a huge amount of research has begun showing us exactly what causes our creativity, what reduces it, and even what enhances it. Here are 16 scientifically proven ways to enhance your creativity. Put your phone away.

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Why mind wandering is good for your creativity

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If you want to become more creative, one of the most effective things you can do is become more comfortable letting your mind wander. It sounds simple, but there is a wealth of research which shows the creative benefits of letting your thoughts flow freely. This incubation state is one of the primary aspects of the Creative Process.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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In Group Bias: Why we prefer people who are similar to ourselves

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They are also more likely to succeed at continuing to be creative in the long run. It partially comes down to a cognitive bias called In-Group Bias. And you will almost always prefer and favour the members of the in-group who are similar to you. anything where groups can be formed around a shared identity or belief.

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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

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Some people still debate whether creativity is something which only certain people are born with, or whether it can be developed in everyone. Well, we have already previously seen that creativity is determined more by our nurture (upbringing) than by our nature (genes we are born with).

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