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025: Mastering Creative Thinking: Two Techniques to Make Creative Thinking Stick

Innovation in Practice

In this episode, I’m teaching two techniques to help improve creative thinking long-term as well as some practical tips to make sure you’re on your way to mastery. In this episode you’ll hear: Scientific study on creativity . How to develop your creative thinking through pattern spotting .

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Podcast S5E108: Dr Robert Alan Black – The history of creativity research

Idea to Value

Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:15 – Dr Black’s history in architecture and advertising, leading him to the new field of creativity research. 00:06:30 – Who was Prof Paul E Torrance and his impact on the field of creativity research. 00:09:30 – How creativity tests were developed in the 1950s.

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Gender Role in Creative Thinking – Not What You Think!

Innovation in Practice

At the end of the day, men and women can both knock it out of the park when it comes to creative ideas. . It’s just a matter of finding that sweet spot of innovation and finding the right techniques to boost creativity – no matter the gender. The Study on Gender Role and Creativity. Millward & Helen Freeman. .

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

Are children really more creative than adults? How children are more creative than adults Numerous research studies have found that children can be much more creative than adults in certain instances. Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though. The answer is a little complicated.

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Which colours should you paint your office to be more creative?

Idea to Value

And it turns out that different colours can help you focus (to be productive in your creative challenges), while other colours help improve your divergent thinking (so you can come up with lots of ideas). According to research studies: The best colour for focus: Red. And what are those colours?

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Episode 036: Gender Role in Creative Thinking – Not What You Think!

Innovation in Practice

In this episode, I’m going to share with your two independent studies that talk about this complex issue of gender role in creativity. . I’m also going to describe for you a very real gender bias that occurs in the world of creativity and in other places we know of. Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea.

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Are you born creative? Is creativity genetic? The nature vs nurture debate

Idea to Value

Well, fortunately over the past few decades there has been a lot of research into whether creativity is genetic, whether it is heritable, or whether it is more to do with our surroundings and development. Twin studies. So it appears that from studying twins, creativity has very little to do with genes. Genetic studies.