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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

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A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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Eating your own dog food

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In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. For example, analysis of mutual fund managers in 2011 found nearly half of the managers did not themselves invest in the core funds they were advising customers to buy.

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

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The strong link has been found in multiple research studies ( 1978 , 1987 , 2006 , 2009 ). Indeed, a 1998 meta-analysis of over 83 other research studies found the strongest positive correlations to creativity being with Openness to Experience, and the strongest negative correlations to Neuroticism and Conscientiousness.

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

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In fact, analysis of projects planned to cost over $1 billion showed that around 90% of them also go over budget. It ended up taking more than 10 years longer, and costing over $102 million , around 1,357% over budget. Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence. It is not just individuals who suffer from the planning fallacy though.

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

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Kim (2005) : Meta analysis of 45,880 participants found relationship between creativity test scores and IQ scores is negligible. Preckel & Holling (2006) : Investigation of correlation in 1328 German students. Does not support the threshold theory. However, did find a slight negative correlation above an IQ of 135.

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NASA Announces Winners of Open Innovation Robot Contest

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Astrobee is a free-flying square robot that is going to replace three MIT-designed robots that have been working on the International Space Station since 2006.

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Impact of Crowdsourcing in the Healthcare Industry

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The word “crowdsourcing” was first used in 2006 and in the context of Flickr. Some of the main areas of influence for crowdsourcing in the medical industry are patient diagnosis and treatment, data analysis, patient engagement, and new ventures. For instance, doctors should consider the pros and cons of outsourcing their marketing.