The Data is Clear. We’re Becoming Less Creative
Before I get into anything, the data is American. So it may just be confined to that part of the world, although I’m not going to bet any money on that. Ever since the 1950’s, children have undergone annual creativity tests, in the same way they’ve...
Reversing Assumptions | A Useful Creativity Technique
This past week, Nug, our clever little Bot who teaches Creativity online, presented a neat Creativity Technique – Reversing Assumptions. It’s a great tool to use when you get stuck trying to find a way around, over or through an obstacle. Our brains are...
How Embracing Your Constraints Can Improve Your Creativity
I wrote last week about how putting limitations and constraints in place has the ability to enhance your creativity. But what about if you have limitations and constraints in place naturally? Built into you? Things that make you a little or a lot different from the...
Limits and Restrictions, Green Ham and Improving your Creativity
After 18 months of testing, learning, tweaking and improving, we launched Nug, our Creativity Bot, last week. You can find Nug here if you’re interested. Nug is a Chat Bot using Facebook Messenger’s platform for now. Nug was built to help people improve...
Yes / No Thinking and the Challenge of Sneaking up on Soft Rocks
Yes / No Thinking is a lazy approach to parenting, implemented in your early childhood to save valuable items from being destroyed, and from time to time, ensuring you stayed a live. EXAMPLE 1 If you place a 2 year old next to a freshly painted white wall and hand...
