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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

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Well, we have already previously seen that creativity is determined more by our nurture (upbringing) than by our nature (genes we are born with). However, we have also seen that children appear to be more creative than adults , and that divergent thinking creativity rates fall as we age.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

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Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. There are also countless examples of people who say they work best under pressure, using the deadlines as a motivation to get their best work done.

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

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In fact, most things which we try to accomplish end up taking longer than we initially plan. The planning fallacy is a form of optimism bias where we end up underestimating how much time it will take to complete a piece of work, and as a result also the cost of the work or reduced benefits.

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What are your innovation ambitions for next year?

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Since 2005, I have been working with companies around the world to transform their businesses. And anyone who tries to sell you that dream is lying, or just trying to make themselves rich at your expense. What are you hoping to achieve next year? Especially when it comes to what you want the creativity of your people to achieve.

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Do you need to be intelligent in order to be creative? The threshold theory

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Throughout history, many people who were regarded as highly creative, the people who made a mark on their fields, especially the scientific disciplines, were also highly intelligent. Kim (2005) : Meta analysis of 45,880 participants found relationship between creativity test scores and IQ scores is negligible. Inconclusive.

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The creative personality: Which of the Big 5 Personality Traits is associated with creativity?

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And whatever stereotype you have of what a creative person should look or behave like, we do now have some scientific evidence of how they think. The worst example of this is probably the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment, which has been debunked by the scientific community ( 1996 , 1997 , 2005 ). intellectual curiosity.

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

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That someone thinks that they are not creative because they see other people who have more talent or skill than they do, and by comparing themselves to these “geniuses” , they believe they do not have the ability to do great creative things. But how do we find out whether someone can be born with or without creative ability?