The Three Gaps of Creativity: Effort, Skill and Quality
[This is an excerpt from the book The Dance of The Possible.] The great surprise for people with good…
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Does “think outside the box” help? Popular creativity cliches explained
While researching The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest, completely irreverent, guide to creativity, I studied the history of…
How Ignorance Drives Creativity
[In the countdown to the release of The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to…
Creativity Is Not An Accident
[This is an excerpt from The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity] Many…
The 177 Myths of Innovation & Creativity: Mega summary
The term Myths of Innovation has become popular on the web, but few articles on the subject link to…
John Cleese on Creativity
I recently re-watched this excellent talk by John Cleese (of Monty Python) on creativity. The best parts are after the…
Bob Ross, Picasso and Creativity
Growing up in NYC in the 1970s, with a mere 4 TV stations, any show in regular rotation on…
Does Your Workplace Affect Creativity? Mostly No
There’s a misguided trend in looking to architecture to explain why some groups of people are creative and others…
Speaking in Chicago: Monday May 21st 2pm, Creativity
I’ll be in Chicago next week to keynote the 2012 STC Summit. Thanks to Brian Fitzpatrick, I’ll also be…
Glass & Glass on creativity
Ira Glass, of This American Life, interviewed his cousin, the famous composer Phillip Glass. Here are some excerpts on…
How Yoga destroys creativity: Niemann on working with ideas
Great little diagram from an excellent talk by Christoph Niemann. He’s showing an honest accounting of how his day…
Bruce Springsteen on Creativity
When I failed out of college and was stuck in Queens for a year, it was a mix tape…
Applying Jazz to workplace creativity
Months ago I got a sneak preview of a book on two of my favorite things: the making of…
The creativity crisis (Newsweek)
In a recent article on America’s declining ability to be creative, the author, Po Bronson, tries to explain why…
Can you learn creativity from dance? An interview
I’m always curious about how people in different fields work with their ideas. When I talk with painters, sculptors,…
Creativity lessons from Rene Magritte
One perk of an independent life – I’m more free than most to travel the world and see amazing…
Efficiency vs. Creativity
A recent Businessweek article on 3M highlights the trade off between managing for efficiency and managing for creativity. I…
Conversations about creativity
There’s a great series of short interviews with creators over at cecil vortex. Conversations about creativity. Includes interviews with…
Creativity: Supply vs. Demand
Creative people like to create – no surprise there. But most people who create things struggle to get anyone…
Leading Design 2022: Live Notes
I’m in NYC for Leading Design 2022, and I’m livebloging the event (taking notes in real time, updated for…