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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

Some people still debate whether creativity is something which only certain people are born with, or whether it can be developed in everyone. Well, we have already previously seen that creativity is determined more by our nurture (upbringing) than by our nature (genes we are born with).

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Teachers don’t realise they don’t like creative students

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Every school will tell its students and teachers that they aim to promote creativity in their classrooms. What their teachers might however not be aware of is that, in practice, they don’t actually want their students to be creative. Least Typical of a Creative Child. Is Impulsive. Is Individualistic. Takes Chances.

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

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Are some people born creative? Or to say it another way, are some people born not creative? But how do we find out whether someone can be born with or without creative ability? Do we inherit creativity from our parents? But what about creativity? I hear this myth all the time. Or can we develop it at any stage?

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 2 of 5)

Idea to Value

So in 2013, I started up Improvides , then soon afterwards Ideatovalue.com , and I have made it my mission since then to figure out what actually helps new ideas happen. I am close to sharing some of the breakthrough insights about what make your ideas, creativity and innovation projects work. Or what makes them fail.

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

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What is the link between intelligence and creativity? And can you be creative without being intelligent, or do you need a minimum level of intelligence to achieve great creative feats? This has been a question posed since creativity research began seriously in the 1950s. And it has a long, controversial history.

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How having children makes fathers’ brains less imaginative

Idea to Value

And in the case of fathers, that this might lead to them becoming less creative? As we have previously seen, the brain prefers to use memory than use up resources being creative. And these networks of the brain has been shown as important for the development of divergent creative ideas (Source 2013 , 2014 ).

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)