Creativity articles
I often tell my clients and students that ideas are priceless. Because you cannot put a price on an idea. When it comes to creative ideas, they need to be executed. If an idea just stays in your mind, or the mind of anyone else, it has no value and can make no impact. This [...]
Is it possible to be creative, even if you are not a genius changing the world? Yes, of course. But how do you compare the creativity of a child, to someone who is a professional? This is where the 4C model of creativity comes in. The 4C model of Creativity Up until recently, there was [...]
Max Planck knew how to change the world. His ideas around quantisation of energy completely revolutionised how we think about physics, the world around us, and how small things can become. But he also knew that you cannot convince everyone that your new ideas are true. Some people will continue to resist new information, and [...]
A few years ago, I help what was at the time the biggest ever online summit for Innovation and Creativity. In it, more than 50 experts from the fields of creativity and innovation came together to share their thoughts, research, experience and insights with me about how to become more creative and actually have those [...]
At the end of the day, we all want to produce creative and innovative work that is high quality and remembered. But how do we get to these high quality ideas? Many people get paralysed by the fear of producing something which is not good enough. They don't want to produce bad work, and therefore [...]
Living a creative life is a goal for a lot of people. The idea of spending every day immersed in artistic pursuits exploring opportunities, even gaining a better understanding of what creativity means is exciting. Yet, this isn’t the current reality for most — life tends to get in the way. The reality is a [...]
