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Creativity: The Elusive Butterfly

Creativity: The Elusive Butterfly

Creative inspiration is elusive, and it is a common fact that some people are more creative than others. New research suggests creativity can be magnified with hard work and the right network.

Creativity can be ‘grown’ with the right soil and sunlight, and is not just a thing people are born with.

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Creativity: Important Factors

Apart from one’s network and environment, creativity also requires the right exposure and experience, which involves making mistakes and going places.

A fantastic imagination is often a crucial element that is often overlooked, as people who daydream or ar...

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Fantasy Engagement

Children who fantasize and are daydream are often good in their creative imagination, narrative ability and other aspects that can be boosted.

Episodic Imagination takes cues from real events that are in memory and transforms it into an imaginary visualization, making the experien...

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Creativity: Thought Processes

  • Divergent Thinking: The ability to think a diverse range of ideas which are relevant to the main topic.
  • Convergent Thinking: Evaluation of the diverse ideas for its usefulness and effectiveness when tackling the main problem.
  • Intui...

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Pablo Picasso

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

PABLO PICASSO

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Imagine And It Will Not Happen

While most self-help books emphasize on imagining a great future, the key takeaway from the study on creative imagination is that one has to imagine the process, not the final outcome.

Imagining the desired outcome actually yields worse results but imagining the episodic ...

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What is creativity

What is creativity

Creativity is taking what's already present and connecting them in ways that haven't been done previously.

  • Research suggests both creativity and non-creativity are learned. Some people are more primed than others to be creative but nearly every person ...

The Elusive Butterfly Called Happiness

The Elusive Butterfly Called Happiness

  • Happiness is an enigma, an elusive butterfly. Different people experience this fleeting feeling in diverse ways.
  • The extrovert personality types have a stronger, more positive link towards happiness, as compared to the neurotics.
  • It is hard to pinpoint if th...

Inspiration and creativity

Inspiration births creativity. Inspired people view themselves as more creative and show actual increases in self-ratings of creativity over time.

The link between inspiration and creativity is consistent with the transcendent aspect of inspiration since creativity involves seeing possibili...

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