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Basic Biochemistry Of Creativity
For creative achievement to be realized, there are three broad cognitive abilities that are required:
- The ability to generate new ideas.
- Response inhibition, that is the ability to break out of a routine with ease.
- A working memory that retains ideas.
Creativity is a never-ending slog and it’s best to keep writing, practising and just being in a river-like flow.
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Happiness and Creativity
One way to continuously be in a state of mind that is prepared for a stroke of genius is to be happy-go-lucky, staying in a positive mood, with a relaxed, flexible state of attention.
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Creativity
While some people are born creative, it is possible to acquire this skill. The right conditions and the right training can make everyone creative, in their own unique way.
As we move from the past where the industrial economy and more recently the knowledge economy had world domination, we...
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Traits Of Creative People
In various studies, it is found that creative people tend to be more driven, impulsive, and self-confident.
They are less conventional and unorthodox in many aspects of life.
Openness to new ideas, curiosity and disagreeableness comes as common traits of...
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Divergent Thinking
Divergent thinking is a tuning out process that widens the mental ‘net’ and is akin to shifting the focus from micro to macro, or changing the focus altogether. Divergent thinking is a hallmark of incubation and eclipses even ‘IQ’ as a predictor to one’s creative powers.
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The Neural Pathways
The neural pathways in our brain, that drive creativity is where incubation happens; this process involves the entire brain, not just the right-brain side, as assumed by most.
These neural pathways fostering incubation are known as the default mode network (DMN). It jostles and dances for...
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Steps Of The Cognitive Process
Creativity can be learned as a cognitive skill using the following steps:
- Preparation: The basic rules, languages, and instructions in any skill.
- Incubation: When ideas wander in your brain's neural network, lost in the wild.
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The Trinity Of Creativity
To enhance the creativity we already experience every day, we need to tap into three aspects of our brains:
- Memory: Try to remember past events, using the tools of notes and journals.
- Imagination: Make use of creative visualization, brainstormi...
The history of "creativity"
- Creativity, as a power belonging to an individual, doesn't go back very far. The first recorded usage of the word creativity came from the Oxford English Dictionary in the 17th century: 'In Creation, we have God and his Creativity.'
- In the 17th and 18th centuries, ...
The two-stage process of creativity
Human creativity is our ability to move to and fro between the realms of "what is" and "what could be."
Creativity is a two-stage process:
- It's the ability to work through a challenge or an idea by imagining possible outcomes that...
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