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The Tyranny of the Blank Page: How to get over writer’s block

Idea to Value

According to clinical research by Mike Rose , one thing which distinguishes writers who regularly suffer from writer’s block from those who manage to write more freely is that they impose on themselves a set of “rules” about what the creative output needs to accomplish, and the process to get there.

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THINKING STRATEGIES GENIUSES USE “HOW TO THINK” INSTEAD OF “WHAT TO THINK”

Michael Michalko

Interpreting such a problem through the prism of past experience will, by definition, lead the thinker astray. KNOWING HOW TO SEE. When confronted with a problem, they ask “How many different ways can I look at it?” Da Vinci called this process “knowing how to see.”

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Top 12 Best Creativity Podcasts

Idea to Value

With more than 150 episodes, this podcast seeks to highlight the science of what makes ideas work, by interviewing researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators about what it takes to understand creativity, how it works and how to use it to make your business innovations more successful. 5: 99% Invisible. Links: Apple.

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THE YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY: Launching in Late May

Idea Champions

Enter The Year of Living Creatively -- a highly engaging online antidote for creative derailment -- a GPS for possibility, a greenhouse for greatness, and a chiropractic adjustment for the often mysterious creative process. HOW IT WORKS: Dominoes delivers pizza. It's not a class. It's not a workshop. INTERESTED?

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How to Measure Innovation (To Get Real Results)

Innovators Alliance

Definitions differ. If you go too far–like 3M did when they applied the rigorous Six Sigma model to its creative process–you might actually get less of what you really want. The most innovative organizations carefully consider what goes into the innovation process, but also consider what should come out of it.

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How to Be More Creative

Idea Champions

Define what you mean by "creative": If you Google the phrase "Definitions of Creativity", you will find 53,900,000 entries. Creativity" means different things to different people. What is your operational definition of creativity? Jump Start Creativity. What does it mean to you? Urgency/relaxation.

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THE YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY: Next Course Begins on January 16th

Idea Champions

The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course that helps aspiring innovators transform their inspired visions and ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living. APPLIED CREATIVITY: A PDF download of a 200-page guidebook for aspiring innovators.

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