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Which drugs actually help your creativity?

Idea to Value

After all, if you wanted to look for examples of famous creatives who drank ungodly amounts of coffee, you could take inspiration from Beethoven (who was meticulous about having 60 beans per cup), and Voltaire (who allegedly drank between 40-50 cups per day). Research shows a negative correlation between cannabis and creative performance.

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An Invitation to Dive Deeper Into Your Own Creative Process

Idea Champions

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control." -- Julia Cameron. Somebody, somehow, someway conjured them up and successfully navigated their way through the twists and turns of their creative process until what they saw in their mind's eye became a reality. And then they did. The Sistine Chapel.

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The Creative Cliff Illusion

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Interesting new research sheds a light on how you might be wrong about your own creative process. Nordgren wanted to study at what point people expected to be their most creative, and when they actually produced their most creative work. Lucas and Loran F.

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Empower Your Team: Keynote Speakers for Inspiring Team Innovation

Leapfrogging

By presenting case studies and evidence-backed strategies, these speakers can validate the importance of team innovation for achieving organizational goals. Keynote speakers also serve as catalysts for change, motivating teams to embrace new methodologies and collaborate more effectively.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand.

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Podcast S3E29: Roger Firestien – Learning from the man who taught the creative process to the most people in the world

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Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:15 the foundational work of Alex Osborn, who invented brainstorming and then the Creative Problem Solving process, which had been validated by more than 150 research studies. 00:09:45 the 4 different types of creativity, and how everyone can be (and already is) creative.

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This part of the brain is the source of improvisation

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Many neuroscientists have tried to find out what changes in the brain when someone is able to improvise successfully, which would indicate that this is one brain region involved in certain creative processes. Limb CJ, Braun AR (2008) Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation.

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