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Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy | Powerful Learning Practice
4 days ago by tsuomela
Here’s what I propose. In the 21st century, we flip Bloom’s taxonomy. Rather than starting with knowledge, we start with creating, and eventually discern the knowledge that we need from it.
learning
pedagogy
teaching
hierarchy
taxonomy
knowledge
creativity
from delicious
4 days ago by tsuomela
What is Good Teaching? A Reflection | Common Dreams
26 days ago by tsuomela
"As a public school teacher, I've come to believe that good teaching comes down to six essential practices. I call them Inducement, Conveyance, Meta-Learning, Empowerment, Modeling, and Application. Just as when all eight amino acids must be present for a protein to form, all six of these activities must be present for Good Teaching (and Good Learning) to occur."
teaching
pedagogy
creativity
definition
success
from delicious
26 days ago by tsuomela
Has the internet run out of ideas already? | Technology | The Observer
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Each of these technologies, Wu argued, started out as gloriously creative, anarchic and uncontrolled. But in the end each was "captured" by corporate power, usually aided and abetted by the state. And the process in each case was the same: a charismatic entrepreneur arrived with a better consumer proposition – for example, a unified system and the guarantee of a dial tone in telephony
internet
innovation
history
business
creativity
capture
monopoly
future
from delicious
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
The Creators Project | Technology and the Brightest Young Minds in Music, Art, Film, and Design
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
"The Creators Project is a global celebration of art and technology.
Founded by a revolutionary partnership between Intel and VICE, The Creators Project supports visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are using technology in innovative ways to push the boundaries of creative expression."
creativity
computers
technology
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Founded by a revolutionary partnership between Intel and VICE, The Creators Project supports visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are using technology in innovative ways to push the boundaries of creative expression."
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
A Manifesto For Creativity In The Modern Era | Techdirt
7 weeks ago by tsuomela
"What I love most about this is how inclusive it is, and how much of it is about recognizing and embracing what an amazingly creative time this is for artists. All too often, we hear of artists who decry such things, who complain about the fact that their club doesn't feel as exclusive any more. For artists and an art exhibit to not just embrace, but joyfully celebrate the way creativity works today, while recognizing how these tools mean that anyone and everyone are creating art all the time, is really wonderful to see."
manifesto
creativity
modern
internet
computer
technology
mashup
appropriation
art
optimism
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7 weeks ago by tsuomela
getting big stuff done: is this an organizational problem? « orgtheory.net
12 weeks ago by tsuomela
"I can see several reasons for why organization theorists don’t engage with these types of, “futurist” questions. First, theories of organization tend to lag practice. That is, organizational scholars describe and explain the world (in its current or past state), though they don’t often engage in speculative forecasting (about possible future states). Second, many of the organizational sub-fields suited for wide-eyed speculation are in a bit of a lull, or they represent small niches. For example, organization design isn’t a super “hot” area these days (certainly with exceptions) — despite its obvious importance. Institutional and environmental theories of organization have taken hold in many parts, and agentic theories are often seen as overly naive. Environmental and institutional theories of course are valuable, but they delimit and are incremental, and are perhaps just self-fulfilling and thus may not always be practically helpful for thinking about the future.
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organizations
sociology
design
future
innovation
creativity
scale
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12 weeks ago by tsuomela
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
january 2012 by tsuomela
"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. "
solitude
silence
computers
technology-effects
social
media
behavior
creativity
novelty
brainstorming
business
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january 2012 by tsuomela
Overcoming Bias : Dear Young Eccentric
january 2012 by tsuomela
"Think of it this way. When some folks go out of their way to show off their defiance and rebellion, others go out of their way to publicly squash such rebellion, to assert their dominance. But if you are not overtly rebellious, you can get away with a lot of abstract idea rebellion — few folks will even notice such deviations, and fewer still will care. So, ask yourself, do you want to look like a rebel, or do you want to be a rebel?"
rebellion
weird
ideas
eccentricity
creativity
novelty
behavior
from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
Infinite Stupidity | Conversation | Edge
january 2012 by tsuomela
A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we've seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What's happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we're being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We're being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard. My worry is that we could be moving in that direction, towards becoming more and more sort of docile copiers.
evolution
learning
innovation
creativity
social-media
technology-effects
evolutionary-psychology
biology
imitation
epistemology
facebook
internet
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january 2012 by tsuomela
Finding Your Next Big (Adjacent) Idea - James L. McQuivey - Harvard Business Review
september 2011 by tsuomela
To get this right, you have to think right. The idea of adjacent possibilities started with evolutionary biologist Stuart Kauffman, who used it to explain how such powerful biological innovations as sight and flight came into being. More recently, Steven Johnson, in Where Good Ideas Come From, showed that it's also applicable to science, culture, and technology. The core of the idea: People arrive at the best new ideas when they combine prior (adjacent) ideas in new ways. Most combinations fail
creativity
innovation
business
ideas
adjacent
possibility
september 2011 by tsuomela
Haruki Murakami: Talent Is Nothing Without Focus and Endurance :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
september 2011 by tsuomela
"The stories we tell ourselves about creative achievement nearly always focus on the holy grail of inspiration, and leave out the rather important bits about perspiration."
creativity
innovation
focus
talent
success
endurance
september 2011 by tsuomela
The Myth of the Sole Inventor by Mark Lemley :: SSRN
august 2011 by tsuomela
"The point can be made more general: surveys of hundreds of significant new technologies show that almost all of them are invented simultaneously or nearly simultaneously by two or more teams working independently of each other. Invention appears in significant part to be a social, not an individual, phenomenon. Inventors build on the work of those who came before, and new ideas are often "in the air," or result from changes in market demand or the availability of new or cheaper starting materials. And in the few circumstances where that is not true – where inventions truly are "singletons" – it is often because of an accident or error in the experiment rather than a conscious effort to invent. "
invention
innovation
creativity
social
individual
genius
intellectual-property
patents
law
august 2011 by tsuomela
Steve Jobs and America at Jon Taplin's Home Page
august 2011 by tsuomela
"There is a bad tendency in this country to think our “innovation deficit” lies in what policy makers call STEM (science,technology, engineering and math). But Jobs understands that the magic formula is STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math). It is the basis of what we teach at The innovation Lab and it is the core of the Apple brand. Steve’s obsessive belief in the role of the artist goes way beyond his early fascination with typography. What makes each of his products so thrilling is that they are aesthetically pleasing just to look at, never mind how cool they are to operate."
innovation
creativity
STEM
education
art
design
business
august 2011 by tsuomela
Tim Harford's Adapt: How to fund research so that it generates insanely great ideas, not pretty good ones. - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine
july 2011 by tsuomela
"It isn't hard to see why a bureaucracy, entrusted with spending billions of taxpayer dollars, is more concerned with minimising losses than maximizing gains. And the NIH approach does have its place. The Santa Fe complexity theorists Stuart Kaufman and John Holland have shown that the ideal way to discover paths through a shifting landscape of possibilities is to combine baby steps and speculative leaps. The NIH is funding the baby steps. Who is funding the speculative leaps? The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invests huge sums each year, but only about one-twentieth of 1 percent of the world's global R
research
innovation
creativity
bureaucracy
government
black-swan
science
nsf
july 2011 by tsuomela
The Art of Scientific and Technological Innovations : Art of Science Learning
april 2011 by tsuomela
"Most people are at a loss to be able to identify any useful connections between arts and sciences. This ignorance is appalling. Arts provide innovations through analogies, models, skills, structures, techniques, methods, and knowledge. Arts don't just prettify science or make technology more aesthetic
creativity
arts
art
science
inspiration
invention
novelty
learning
education
innovation
april 2011 by tsuomela
Innovation Isn't About Math - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic
march 2011 by tsuomela
"Fostering innovation, in other words, isn't just a matter of improving the quantity or quality of math and science education. It's a matter of restructuring how we approach and teach all our subjects, from the liberal arts to math, science and engineering. And it means focusing as much on teaching how to combine those fields of knowledge and think in flexible, integrative, and creative ways, as we do on the subject matter itself. "
innovation
education
creativity
novelty
change
reform
pedagogy
academia
march 2011 by tsuomela
Lance Mannion: Falling in love with a life of adventure when the grown-ups want you to go into accounting
november 2010 by tsuomela
The problem these articles are identifying is this: What are our kids doing instead of doing what we want them to be doing at the moment?
The problem with the problem, though, is that what we want them to be doing is preparing to be forty-five years old.
The kids are all right and they’re no fools. They know what we want them to do and they don’t like it much.
The real problem is that there is no alternative for them between preparing to be forty-five and sitting around bored to tears all day.
So they compromise. That is, they offer a teenager’s version of compromise, which is to put off doing what the adults want them to do by promising to do it later. Then they sit around bored to tears, looking for ways to distract themselves from their boredom.
education
technology
children
teenager
moral-panic
technology-effects
pedagogy
high-school
adolescence
creativity
The problem with the problem, though, is that what we want them to be doing is preparing to be forty-five years old.
The kids are all right and they’re no fools. They know what we want them to do and they don’t like it much.
The real problem is that there is no alternative for them between preparing to be forty-five and sitting around bored to tears all day.
So they compromise. That is, they offer a teenager’s version of compromise, which is to put off doing what the adults want them to do by promising to do it later. Then they sit around bored to tears, looking for ways to distract themselves from their boredom.
november 2010 by tsuomela
Can You Get Genius Results With Just Hard Work? No | Sightings by Terry Teachout - WSJ.com
november 2010 by tsuomela
To his credit, Mr. Robinson unequivocally rejects what he calls "the anti-elitist Zeitgeist." At the same time, he believes that while "genius is not a myth," it is merely an enabling condition that can be brought to fruition only through hard and focused work. This seems to me to strike the right balance—yet it still fails to account for the impenetrable mystery that enshrouds such birds of paradise as Bobby Fischer, who started playing chess at the age of 6. Nine years later, he became the U.S. chess champion. His explanation? "All of a sudden I got good."
genius
creativity
success
talent
deliberate-practice
practice
time
november 2010 by tsuomela
Innovation Isn’t a Matter of Left or Right - NYTimes.com
november 2010 by tsuomela
Steven Johnson responds to the question: "Are you a communist?"
In my research, I analyzed 300 of the most influential innovations in science, commerce and technology — from the discovery of vacuums to the vacuum tube to the vacuum cleaner — and put the innovators of each breakthrough into one of four quadrants. First, there is the classic solo entrepreneur, protecting innovations in order to benefit from them financially; then the amateur individual, exploring and inventing for the love of it. Then there are the private corporations collaborating on ideas while simultaneously competing with one another. And then there is what I call the “fourth quadrant”: the space of collaborative, nonproprietary innovation, exemplified in recent years by the Internet and the Web, two groundbreaking innovations not owned by anyone.
...the fourth quadrant turns out to have generated more world-changing ideas than the competitive sphere of the marketplace.
innovation
creativity
politics
ideology
markets
collaboration
property
intellectual-property
communism
In my research, I analyzed 300 of the most influential innovations in science, commerce and technology — from the discovery of vacuums to the vacuum tube to the vacuum cleaner — and put the innovators of each breakthrough into one of four quadrants. First, there is the classic solo entrepreneur, protecting innovations in order to benefit from them financially; then the amateur individual, exploring and inventing for the love of it. Then there are the private corporations collaborating on ideas while simultaneously competing with one another. And then there is what I call the “fourth quadrant”: the space of collaborative, nonproprietary innovation, exemplified in recent years by the Internet and the Web, two groundbreaking innovations not owned by anyone.
...the fourth quadrant turns out to have generated more world-changing ideas than the competitive sphere of the marketplace.
november 2010 by tsuomela
Book Review: 'Where Good Ideas Come From' by Steven Johnson - latimes.com
november 2010 by tsuomela
So what's the philosopher's stone for creativity, the elixir for making innovative places?
A "series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments," Johnson argues, be they companies, cities or coral reefs. Good ideas, whether expressed as patents or paintings or DNA, flourish in liquid networks stocked with old ideas and physical resources that can be cannibalized, recycled and repurposed. Liquid networks give creative groups the chance to explore the "adjacent possible," the new functions or capabilities opened up by incremental innovations; discover new uses for old ideas; and explore potentially fruitful errors. Finally, they serve as a proving ground for ideas, making it easier to experiment, fail quickly and cheaply and iterate faster.
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review
creativity
innovation
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A "series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments," Johnson argues, be they companies, cities or coral reefs. Good ideas, whether expressed as patents or paintings or DNA, flourish in liquid networks stocked with old ideas and physical resources that can be cannibalized, recycled and repurposed. Liquid networks give creative groups the chance to explore the "adjacent possible," the new functions or capabilities opened up by incremental innovations; discover new uses for old ideas; and explore potentially fruitful errors. Finally, they serve as a proving ground for ideas, making it easier to experiment, fail quickly and cheaply and iterate faster.
november 2010 by tsuomela
Kickstarter
october 2010 by tsuomela
Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.
We believe that...
• A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.
• A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.
Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.
crowdsourcing
funding
creativity
business
community
ideas
projects
social
We believe that...
• A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.
• A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.
Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.
october 2010 by tsuomela
MIT Press Journals - World Policy Journal - Fall 2010
september 2010 by tsuomela
Is there, as
World Policy Journal suggests in every issue, a truly global network of creativity—not
only in the written word, but in art, drama, music, film, television and beyond? The
answers arrived and the results, we believe, will surprise and entertain. For the first time
in our quarter century as a publication, we consider poetry, music, painting, internet art,
film from Nigeria, plays from Peru—the entire gamut of human creativity—to arrive at
the conclusion we suspected from the start: That today, for perhaps the first time in human
history, a Global Canon has arrived.
magazine
journal
creativity
canon
global
globalization
art
literature
World Policy Journal suggests in every issue, a truly global network of creativity—not
only in the written word, but in art, drama, music, film, television and beyond? The
answers arrived and the results, we believe, will surprise and entertain. For the first time
in our quarter century as a publication, we consider poetry, music, painting, internet art,
film from Nigeria, plays from Peru—the entire gamut of human creativity—to arrive at
the conclusion we suspected from the start: That today, for perhaps the first time in human
history, a Global Canon has arrived.
september 2010 by tsuomela
The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek
july 2010 by tsuomela
Overwhelmed by curriculum standards, American teachers warn there’s no room in the day for a creativity class. Kids are fortunate if they get an art class once or twice a week. But to scientists, this is a non sequitur, borne out of what University of Georgia’s Mark Runco calls “art bias.” The age-old belief that the arts have a special claim to creativity is unfounded. When scholars gave creativity tasks to both engineering majors and music majors, their scores laid down on an identical spectrum, with the same high averages and standard deviations. Inside their brains, the same thing was happening—ideas were being generated and evaluated on the fly.
creativity
innovation
psychology
learning
education
pedagogy
teaching
america
decline
july 2010 by tsuomela
Forget Brainstorming - Newsweek
july 2010 by tsuomela
What you think you know about fostering creativity is wrong. A look at what really works.
creativity
innovation
brainstorming
education
ideas
psychology
july 2010 by tsuomela
OnFiction: Book Review: The Psychology of Creative Writing
july 2010 by tsuomela
Kaufman, S. B., & Kaufman, J. C. (2009). The psychology of creative writing. New York: Cambridge University Press.
book
review
psychology
fiction
literature
creativity
writing
july 2010 by tsuomela
Why you are not an Artist « Scott Berkun
june 2010 by tsuomela
I think to call someone an Artist means they have some sense of a higher purpose beyond commerce. Not that they don’t profit from their work, or promote themselves, but that the work itself has spiritual, philosophical, emotional or experiential attributes as central goals. An artist’s work is about an idea, a feeling, or an exploration of a form, framed more by their own intuitions, than the checklists and protocols of bureaucracies and corporations.
art
creativity
definition
artist
june 2010 by tsuomela
The Myth Of Creativity
june 2010 by tsuomela
The sobering truth is that the dramatic artistic creations or intellectual insights we most admire for their striking "creativity" matter little for economic growth. Creative new clothes or music may change fashion, but are soon eclipsed by newer fashions. Large and lasting economic innovations, like steam engines or cell phones, are rare and tend to be independently "invented" by many people. One less visionary would matter little.
Instead, the innovations that matter most are the millions of small changes we constantly make to our billions of daily procedures and arrangements.
creativity
invention
novelty
innovation
business
myth
Instead, the innovations that matter most are the millions of small changes we constantly make to our billions of daily procedures and arrangements.
june 2010 by tsuomela
The Widening Gyrus » American Scientist
june 2010 by tsuomela
Concert pianists could be model organisms for studying the physiological basis of intellectual greatness.
talent
genius
psychology
intelligence
greatness
success
music
creativity
june 2010 by tsuomela
Alan J. Rocke: Image and Reality
june 2010 by tsuomela
In Image and Reality, Alan Rocke focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide the basis for a fuller understanding of the nature of scientific creativity.
Arguing that visual mental images regularly assisted many of these scientists in thinking through old problems and new possibilities, Rocke uses a variety of sources... to investigate their ability to not only imagine the invisibly tiny atoms and molecules upon which they operated daily, but to build detailed and empirically based pictures of how all of the atoms in complicated molecules were interconnected. These portrayals of “chemical structures,” both as mental images and as paper tools, gradually became an accepted part of science during these years and are now regarded as one of the central defining features of chemistry. In telling this fascinating story... Rocke also suggests that imagistic thinking is often at the heart of creative thinking in all fields.
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history
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innovation
creativity
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via:cshalizi
Arguing that visual mental images regularly assisted many of these scientists in thinking through old problems and new possibilities, Rocke uses a variety of sources... to investigate their ability to not only imagine the invisibly tiny atoms and molecules upon which they operated daily, but to build detailed and empirically based pictures of how all of the atoms in complicated molecules were interconnected. These portrayals of “chemical structures,” both as mental images and as paper tools, gradually became an accepted part of science during these years and are now regarded as one of the central defining features of chemistry. In telling this fascinating story... Rocke also suggests that imagistic thinking is often at the heart of creative thinking in all fields.
june 2010 by tsuomela
Taste for Makers
april 2010 by tsuomela
by Paul Graham in 2002. "Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion. The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite."
design
creativity
art
philosophy
programming
aesthetics
judgment
style
taste
april 2010 by tsuomela
The Young Foundation - A centre for Social Innovation
march 2010 by tsuomela
We bring together insight, innovation and entrepreneurship to meet social needs, with a 55 year track record of success with ventures such as the Open University, Which?, the School for Social Entrepreneurs and Healthline (the precursor of NHS Direct).
Our Launchpad team creates innovative new organisations in health and education.
Our local innovation work includes practical projects involving neighbourhoods, wellbeing and the future of cities.
Our research covers changing needs, crime, social innovation, civility and belonging. We work locally around our base in east London, throughout the UK, as well as internationally.
social
innovation
research
community
activism
entrepreneurship
creativity
design
think-tank
international
city(London)
country(GreatBritain)
Our Launchpad team creates innovative new organisations in health and education.
Our local innovation work includes practical projects involving neighbourhoods, wellbeing and the future of cities.
Our research covers changing needs, crime, social innovation, civility and belonging. We work locally around our base in east London, throughout the UK, as well as internationally.
march 2010 by tsuomela
The Commonwealth of New Island
february 2010 by tsuomela
This is the home of New Island, an ongoing work of art by Lee Mothes (me) and other New islanders.
weblog-individual
art
fiction
creativity
imagination
world-making
february 2010 by tsuomela
The Artistic Freedom Voucher: Internet Age Alternative to Copyrights - CEPR
february 2010 by tsuomela
This paper provides an alternative to copyrights for supporting creative and artistic work: the Artistic Freedom Voucher (AFV). They are designed to maximize the extent of individual choice while taking full advantage of new technologies.
copyright
internet
law
creativity
arts
february 2010 by tsuomela
[0911.2390] How Creative Should Creators Be To Optimize the Evolution of Ideas? A Computational Model
december 2009 by tsuomela
There are both benefits and drawbacks to creativity. In a social group it is not necessary for all members to be creative to benefit from creativity; some merely imitate or enjoy the fruits of others' creative efforts. What proportion should be creative? This paper contains a very preliminary investigation of this question carried out using a computer model of cultural evolution referred to as EVOC (for EVOlution of Culture)....For all levels or creativity, the diversity of ideas in a population is positively correlated with the ratio of creative agents.
creativity
innovation
modeling
evolution
social-networks
analysis
december 2009 by tsuomela
NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning | 43 Folders
november 2009 by tsuomela
Some book recommendations about writing- Goldberg, King, Hart, Lamott, etc.
writing
creativity
attention
determination
attitude
book
recommendations
november 2009 by tsuomela
The Way We Live Now - Going Offline in Search of Freedom - NYTimes.com
october 2009 by tsuomela
In my slightly less agonizing situation, the trap is more of a bait and switch: the promise is of infinite knowledge, but what’s delivered is infinite information, and the two are hardly the same. In that sense, Homer may have been the original neuropsychologist: centuries after his death, brain studies show that true learning is largely an unconscious process. If we’re inundated with data, our brains’ synthesizing functions are overwhelmed by the effort to keep up. And the original purpose — deeper knowledge of a subject — is lost, as surely as the corpses surrounding Sirenum scopuli.
It could be that sometimes our greatest freedom may be to choose freedom from freedom.
internet
culture
psychology
limits
creativity
attention
information-overload
It could be that sometimes our greatest freedom may be to choose freedom from freedom.
october 2009 by tsuomela
Purpose-Driven Life: an article by Brian Boyd about how evolution creates meaning and creativity | The American Scholar
october 2009 by tsuomela
Evolution does not rob life of meaning, but creates meaning. It also makes possible our own capacity for creativity.
evolution
meaning
purpose
religion
creativity
philosophy
science
darwin
charles
october 2009 by tsuomela
Why Love Has Wings and Sex Has Not: How Reminders of Love and Sex Influence Creative and Analytic Thinking -- Förster et al. 35 (11): 1479 -- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
october 2009 by tsuomela
This article examines cognitive links between romantic love and creativity and between sexual desire and analytic thought based on construal level theory. It suggests that when in love, people typically focus on a long-term perspective, which should enhance holistic thinking and thereby creative thought, whereas when experiencing sexual encounters, they focus on the present and on concrete details enhancing analytic thinking. Because people automatically activate these processing styles when in love or when they experience sex, subtle or even unconscious reminders of love versus sex should suffice to change processing modes. Two studies explicitly or subtly reminded participants of situations of love or sex and found support for this hypothesis.
love
psychology
creativity
construal-level-theory
distance
perception
october 2009 by tsuomela
Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative?: Scientific American
october 2009 by tsuomela
The clever experiments demonstrated that love makes us think differently in that it triggers global processing, which in turn promotes creative thinking and interferes with analytic thinking. Thinking about sex, however, has the opposite effect: it triggers local processing, which in turn promotes analytic thinking and interferes with creativity.
psychology
creativity
innovation
love
sex
construal-level-theory
perspective
scale
distance
art
october 2009 by tsuomela
The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
september 2009 by tsuomela
The 4 pillars of the awesome economy: ethical production, insanely great stuff, love, thick value.
economics
business
reform
innovation
strategy
manifesto
marketing
creativity
experience
awesomeness
design
september 2009 by tsuomela
The Will to Succeed | No Map. No Guide. No Limits.
september 2009 by tsuomela
The premise of Garret LoPorto’s manifesto is that “DaVincis” are the change-agents of society, and act the way they do because of their genes
innovation
creativity
discovery
change
genetics
motivation
september 2009 by tsuomela
Exploring the Land of Frigor | No Map. No Guide. No Limits.
september 2009 by tsuomela
But exploration … and the obsession that sometimes accompanies, or at least often enables, that kind of successful quest … isn’t limited to geographical challenges. For exploration is a matter of going beyond what is known; stepping out into the void beyond that in the hopes of bringing back new knowledge about what lies there.
exploration
motivation
science
geography
eccentric
goals
psychology
obsession
emotion
creativity
innovation
discovery
september 2009 by tsuomela
The Benefits of Vacation - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
september 2009 by tsuomela
The reason such travels are useful involves a quirk of cognition, in which problems that feel “close" - and the closeness can be physical, temporal or even emotional - get contemplated in a more concrete manner. (This is known as construal level theory.) As a result, when we think about things that are nearby, our thoughts are delicately constricted, bound by a more limited set of associations. While this habit can be helpful -it allows us to focus on the facts at hand - it also inhibits our imagination.
psychology
bias
travel
imagination
construal-level-theory
distance
mental
vacation
cognition
science
creativity
september 2009 by tsuomela
Design Thinking » Special Report » Design Thinking « MIT Sloan Management Review
august 2009 by tsuomela
Design thinking — distinct from analytical thinking — has emerged as the premier organizational path not only to breakthrough innovation but, surprisingly, to high-performance collaboration, as well. “It’s not about the pretty,” says one design-thinking practitioner, “it’s about the productive.” In this special section of articles, interviews, illustrated cases and research findings, the Review explores how to put design thinking to work
design
thinking
innovation
creativity
management
design-thinking
analysis
business
august 2009 by tsuomela
The Atlantic Online | Fiction 2009 | Telling Tails | Tim O’Brien
august 2009 by tsuomela
The problem with unsuccessful stories is usually simple: they are boring, a consequence of the failure of imagination. To vividly imagine and to vividly render extraordinary human events, or sequences of events, is the hard-lifting, heavy-duty, day-by-day, unending labor of a fiction writer.
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Breaking Habits for Fun and Profit | No Map. No Guide. No Limits.
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They go on to cite the work of Ben Fletcher, a British psychologist and business consultant. In his work helping managers become more flexible and tolerant, Fletcher found that while the managers could understand and accept the need to change the way they interacted with subordinates, they could rarely actually do so. Fletcher’s theory? That people are so conditioned to act the same way every day, that much of our behavior—even what we know is bad behavior—is habitual.
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The Last Psychiatrist: The Best Way To Improve Your Creativity
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Distance and it's connection to creativity.
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