Leo Widrich shares many strategies to increasing our creativity in his article, Why we have our best ideas in the shower: The science of creativity (thanks, Titania Richard).
Category: Positive Thinking
What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future
NPR’s article, Why Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight discusses work by Harvard Medical School attention researchers Trafton Drew and Jeremy Wolfe, who find that radiologists overwhelmingly fail to see a gorilla placed on MRIs; implications of this study apply to everyone and how our expectations shape how we perceive (and fail… Continue reading What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future
Throwaway Thoughts
I have a lot of creative friends: writers, designers, artists. They can all attest to one simple fact: we have a lot of ideas that just aren’t that good. This truth is not isolated to creativity. Or rather it is, but our definition of creativity is too limiting. We are creating thoughts all the time.… Continue reading Throwaway Thoughts
In Every Problem There Is an Opportunity
The more I look the more I see in things their opposite. Assets are liabilities and vice versa. Pick just about anything and both arguments can be made for the good and the bad of it. So which to pick?Nobody wants problems. I do not want to wish problems on anyone. But problems happen; nobody’s… Continue reading In Every Problem There Is an Opportunity
The Sins of Positive Thinkers
I’m not alone as someone who— in search of spiritual growth— walked away from organized religion. The sermons repeated in my church seemed tired and not terribly relevant to me (though, in fairness, I stopped going at age 16). Words like lord and salvation seemed to be used as givens, above inquiry. I got in to positive… Continue reading The Sins of Positive Thinkers