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Does Listening to Music Stimulate Creative Thinking, or Stifle It?

By Markham Heid

How to Wake Up To Your Creativity

By Jeffrey Kluger

How We're Endangering our Kids' Imaginations

By Melissa Bernstein

How to Raise Creative Children

By The Aspen Institute
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The Morning Routine That Can Help Boost Your Creativity

Just keep writing

By Glenn Leibowitz / Inc.

Why Being Constantly Tired is Not A Badge of Honor

Sleep is vital for problem solving, intelligence, and work

By Jason Fried / Inc.

6 TED Talks That Will Boost Your Creativity

They’ll help you start to think outside of the box ASAP

By Melanie Deziel

Why You Should Wait Five Minutes Before You React

Think before you speak

By Jason Fried / Signal v. Noise

How to Be Creative: 6 Secrets Backed By Research

Whether it’s at work or in our free time, many of us would love to learn how to be creative. Coming up with great ideas and new perspectives is a blast. But “thinking different” is...

By Eric Barker

The Simple Realization That Changed Steve Jobs' Life

Improve the well-being of society

By Drake Baer / Business Insider

Why Neurotics Might Be More Creative

A wandering mind might explain why creative leaders tend to be neurotic.

By Tanya Basu

How Complaining at Work Hurts Your Career

Leadership coach Rick Tamlyn on getting out of the toxic habits that impede our ability to be creative

By Julia Lull and Arpita Aneja

How to Gather Ideas and Combine Them Into a New Creation

“Combinatory play,” said Einstein, “seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.” Ruminating on the necessity of both reading and writing, so as not to confine ourselves to either, Seneca in one of his...

By Shane Parrish

The 5 Skills of Disruptive Innovators

In The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, authors Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen uncover the origins of “innovative-and often disruptive-business ideas.” Five primary discovery skills—skills that compose what we...

By Shane Parrish

4 Principles That Will Make You More Innovative

Combing through the research, what are the overarching principles that we need to know to be more innovative thinkers in everyday life? Here they are, with links to the research backing them up. 1) Relax...

By Eric Barker

How to Overcome Creativity Roadblocks

The riskiest, most dangerous and potentially most interesting ideas are the easiest to hold back

By Courtney Seiter / Buffer

11 Ways to Maximize Your Creative Brainstorming Time

Creative brainstorming can lead to success — if you make time for it

By BusinessCollective

7 Rituals You Should Steal From Extremely Creative People

Observe your mentors and study the work of other masters

By Marc Chernoff

These Are the Top Six Books That Will Make You More Creative

If you read What are the four principles that will lead you to breakthrough creativity? and want more information, look no further. Six of the best sources I came across are below, with links and...

By Eric Barker

The Reason Your Child Might Be Less Creative

Our schools and workplaces claim to love creativity — but the research shows they don’t reward it. In fact, they punish it. “…students with the highest GPA’s were the ones who scored lowest on measures...

By Eric Barker
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