Creativity Tools, Videos, and Resources
- 17 Resources to Awaken Your Right Brain: For all those who feel stuck in the left-side of their brain, and who desperately want to awaken their right-brain hemisphere, here you’ll find 17 resources to help get you started. Start creating!
- Make Your Workspace More Creative: The environment in which you work can either bolster or dampen your creativity. Here are some examples to help you create an inspiring work environment.
- 5 Creativity Videos on YouTube: Watch these five fantastic and highly inspirational creativity videos.
- 25 Audacious Creativity Tools: Here are over 25 different tools to help kick your creativity into high gear.
- Awesome Creativity Blogs: A great way to get inspired is to read great creativity blogs. Here are some great ones (including this one
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- 30 Creativity Cards: A Gift I Made For You: Here are 30 creativity cards which you can print out and glue onto index cards or heavy stock paper to help you when you need creative inspiration.
- Creativity Primer: As Daniel Pink explains in his book “A Whole New Mind”, in today’s economy right-brained skills and abilities are becoming more and more important. In light of this, here’s a “Creativity Primer” I put together to help you develop right-brained skills.
Creativity Techniques
- Three Incredibly Effective Techniques for Creative Thinking: These three incredibly effective creative thinking techniques will help you to solve problems and generate ideas.
- Need Fresh Ideas? Go Streetcombing: Sometimes the best ideas aren’t found sitting behind a desk, but outside, in the street. Pick up your camera and go Streetcombing!
- Mind Maps: Everything You Need to Know: A mind map is a whole-brain method for generating and organizing ideas which is largely inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s approach to note-taking. Mind maps can stimulate creativity, help you learn, and muc more.
- 20 Creative Thinking Techniques: You can overcome routine thinking and stimulate creative thought by using specific techniques that will help both stimulate and constrain your mind so that it can solve problems more effectively and generate more ideas. Here are 20 creative thinking techniques.
- Lateral Thinking: Think Out-of-the-Box: Edward de Bono coined the phrase “lateral thinking”, which involves approaching problems from diverse, unexpected angles and from different perspectives.
- Creative Thinking Techniques: The “Playful” Edition: Creativity experts have long known that play is one of the most effective creative thinking techniques that there is. Get some toys together and let the good times roll.
Creativity and Innovation Books
Collections of Creative Bits and Pieces
- Medley of Creativity: These are some odds and ends I found while surfing the net which will help get your creative juices flowing.
- Potpourri of Creativity Tips: Here’s a potpourri of creativity tips to help inspire you when the laundry needs to be done, you feel a cold coming on, and the cat just knocked over everything on your nightstand.
- Creativity Collage: Here’s an assemblage of creativity tips, paintings, quotes, and poems chosen at random and put together as a collage of creative inspirations.
- Creative Insights From the Worldwide Web: These creative insights from the worldwide web includes things from biomimicry, to Elizabeth Gilbert’s fabulous Ted.com talk on creative genius.
Making Time to Create
Creativity Quotes
- 75 Creativity Quotes: You can use these fabulous creativity quotes as inspiration to get your creative juices flowing.
Specially for Writers and Would-be Writers
- NaNoWriMo – How to Write a Novel in 30 Days: Every November tens of thousands of people aim to produce a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Here are some guidelines and ideas that will help you write a novel in 30 days, even if you’re not participating in NaNoWriMo.
- 119 Journal Prompts for Your Journal Jar: In this post you’re going to find 119 journal prompts to either help you get started in keeping a journal, or offer some additional inspiration for dedicated journalers.
- 54 Tips For Writers, From Writers: How do you face an empty page, coax your ideas into the world of form, and steer the end result toward shore? You can start by studying the tips and advice from writers presented in this article.
How to Generate Ideas and Prime Your Creative Pump
More Fabulous Creativity Posts
- Creating In the Dark – Your Sacred Dance: What do you do when you can’t yet make a living from your creative endeavors and your work hasn’t been recognized? You create anyway.
- Three Ways Limits Can Set Your Creativity Free: Instead of thinking of limits as constraints or as obstacles that block your progress toward achieving your goals, start thinking of them as valuable allies.
- The Yin-Yang of Creativity: Creativity is about putting on your faded overalls, rolling up your sleeves, and punching in each day to dig into your work. And yet it’s also about pausing, taking breaks, and letting your mind wander.
- Creativity Whacks to the Head – Roger von Oech: Roger von Oech is an internationally-recognized creativity consultant. His book, “A Whack on the Side of the Head”, is a classic in the field of creativity and innovation.
- Fun, Whimsical Gift Ideas for Creative People: Here are some great gift suggestions for the creative people in your life.
- Use Creativity to Double Your Way to a Million Dollars: A while back I came across a free report written by Stuart Goldsmith called “How to Double Your Way to a Million Dollars”. Combine what Stuart teaches in his report with some creativity, and see what happens.
- Solve Everyday Problems Creatively: Get into the habit of actively looking for creative solutions to the everyday problems that are all around us. In this article you’ll find some examples of how creativity can solve routine, everyday problems.
- Four Creativity Lessons From the Impressionists: The Impressionists ignited a revolution with their use of color and movement. Their style perplexed critics, created scandal, and ushered in modern art. In this article you’ll find four creativity lessons from the Impressionists.
- The Future Belongs to Those Who are Intrinsically Motivated: Intrinsic motivation is motivation that comes from the pleasure a person gets from the task itself, or from the sense of satisfaction in working on the task. One of the keys to creativity, happiness, and the realization of your full potential is the ability to be intrinsically motivated.
- The World Needs Alchemists: Creative Capitalism:“Creative Capitalism” is a term popularized by Bill Gates at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It refers to harnessing market forces to address the needs of the poor.
How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists
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