Creativity: 10 ways to profit from serendipity
Serendipity can often be a pathway to creative breakthroughs. Here are 10 powerful ways to summon it on demand - and increase your creativity.
How solitude helps you be more creative
Solitude can help you be more creative. According to Edward Tufte, the father of data visualization, it's essential to seeing and perceiving the world around us more clearly - a…
Creativity: How thought experiments lead to spectacular insights
Thought experiments are a powerful ideation method used by creative luminaries like Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci to achieve some of their most stunning breakthroughs. Here's how you can…
10 ways to dramatically increase your creativity in 2015
One of the best ways to advance your career in 2015 is to become more creative. Becoming known as an idea person is an awesome way to differentiate yourself and…
Welcome to the Creative Age – are you ready?
We're living in the Creative Age, where ideas are the coin of the realm. Are you prepared to leverage the opportunities it can bring your way?
Creativity: How to profit from other peoples’ ideas (without stealing them)
If you need new ideas to solve a problem or challenge, you have many brainstorming techniques you can use. But one of the most productive ways is to adapt a…
Evernote Context: A powerful new catalyst for creative problem solving
Last week, Evernote announced that it's developing a new service called Evernote Context that will suggest additional content relevant to the note you're currently working with. This opens up some…
Use Ben Franklin’s clever hack to become astoundingly creative
In Robert Allen Black’s creativity book, Broken Crayons: Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines, the author shares an intriguing story from the autobiography of Ben Franklin that you…
10 remarkable ways to use Google for creative problem solving
Did you know that Google isn't just the world's most popular and powerful search engine? It's also an awesome tool for creative problem solving.
Creativity: Are you solving the right problem?
Business people, when faced with a challenge, often decide what the problem is, and immediately throw their full weight into solving it. There’s only one problem with that approach: Often,…