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2007-08-14 20:26:19     The Beer Can Theory of Creativity

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I had to laugh this morning while reading the Ottawa Cit... crafty yet bafflingly incompetent vandal described as "H... pack, but the plastic thingy that holds them together is... spin-off of the saying "He's one can short of a full six...
This chapte

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2010-06-18 09:30:28     The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...he-internet-and-our-brains/

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.

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2007-08-21 09:32:39     toward a Theory of Creative Inklings

http://cogprints.org/2105/00/inklings.htm

Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings
Liane Gabora,
... what sort of a system could spawn the initial seed of creativity from which an idea grows?

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2008-11-22 10:39:48     The Journal of Problem Solving

http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/vol2/iss1/

Volume 2 Issue 1 (2008) Contents
Susanne Tak, Marco Plaisier, and Iris van Rooij (2008) ...
Magda Osman (2008) Seeing is as Good as Doing
Edward P. Chronicle, James N. MacGregor, Michael Lee, T ...

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2006-07-08 16:28:14     Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

# Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable).
# Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentra ...
# A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the mergi ...
# Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of ...
... ally rewardi

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2010-10-14 20:48:41     fmeawad.me » Blog Archive » Don’t be Shy to #fail

http://fmeawad.me/?p=282

Most of the people I know, friends or students, are too ... they prefer to not even try. They spend their lives tryi... and thinking that this is “success”. They can go on ... know what they are capable of or how unique they are jus... unfriendly

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2007-12-05 15:49:57     Idealized Design: How Bell Labs Imagined -- and Created -- the Telephone System of the Future - Knowledge@Wharton

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?...

In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol...
Idealized d

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2007-01-06 11:51:21     Mark Turner

http://markturner.org/


I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

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2010-05-29 16:22:18     BBC News - Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea

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2009-07-20 23:05:49     Milne, A. A. quote - One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly ma...

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28918/

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is... exciting discoveries. Milne, A. A.

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2014-06-20 08:37:04     The Science of Problem Solving

http://rs.io/2014/02/21/problem-solving.html

A review of the state of our knowledge regarding problem... it work? What is insight? How can we boost our creativit... problem solving performance?

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2008-02-16 09:30:39     Amazon.co.uk: Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage Through Collaborative Innovation Networks: Books: Peter A. Gloor

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swarm-Creativity-Compe.../0195304128

Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Colla... Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of CO... among business managers as any methodology to enhance qu... competitive advantage. The difference though is that COI...
Through rea

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2012-07-12 12:47:08     The Power of Bad Ideas - Core77

http://www.core77.com/bl.../the_power_of_bad_ideas_22446.asp

Creative activities often follow a double-hump model. At... all the obvious ideas. These aren't a waste of time; som...
There's a drop in energy between humps One and Two, as w ...
Bad ideas are not boring, meh proposals. Bad is not the ...
portigal_sk

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2011-10-18 18:17:43     Journal of Creative Behavior | Creative Education Foundation (CEF) - Where Brainstorming Began

http://www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/...ative-behavior

The Journal of Creative Behavior is our quarterly academ... the most current research in creative thinking. For near... has been the benchmark scientific periodical in the fiel... to date cutting-edge ideas about creativity in education... business, a

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2006-08-17 12:37:02     Right and Left Half Brain Thinking, Imagination and Creativity

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/RL-modes.shtml

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

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2009-07-13 11:55:11     Bootstrapping - Doug Engelbart Institute

http://www.dougengelbart.org/.../bootstrapping-strategy.html

Doug Engelbart is best known for inventing the mouse and... however his greatest innovations have been in the vision... devised for bootstrapping the innovation, creating a ver... turbo charged learning curve in his lab out of which eme...
Thus emerge

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2009-02-15 18:16:59     ECS

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/podcasts/video.php?id=150

dr mc schraefel has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engi... Research Fellowship, sponsored by Microsoft Research, to... to discovery for scientists. A vital part of this resear... quest to improve quality of life for scientists through ... information

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2011-12-21 13:09:30     Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...chological-effects-birdsong?...

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

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2008-12-05 19:46:28     Inspire and innovate | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/inspire-innovate

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2006-07-08 16:27:45     Intrinsic Motivation and Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Experience: A critique of two factor theories of human motivation in social psychology

http://www.homestead.com/flows.../csikszentmihalyi_four.html

The flow state has been defined as "an intrinsic reward ... in an activity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1977), an optimal stat... there is a balance between the perceived challenges of a... person’s skills or capabilities for action (Csikszentm... a centering

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2010-07-12 17:42:52     Dry Erase White Board Paint for Offices | IdeaPaint

http://www.ideapaint.com/work/ideapaint/

When you’re confined to the space of a typical whitebo... destined to be small. IdeaPaint turns virtually anything... a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving you the spa... collaborate, interact and fully explore your creativity.... you use it,

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2007-10-08 10:58:21     DAB02: Anti Dogmatic Design

http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/...%20Dogmatic%20Design).htm

DAB02: Anti Dogmatic Design
Instructors:
Prof. Dr. M. Rauterberg
Faculty Industrial Design, Technical University Eindhoven
... ediate to advanced level (depending on your commitment).

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2006-06-15 20:06:27     Logos Dictionary - Logos Translations multilingual dictionary

http://www.logosdictionary.org/...ew_dictionary.dic.main?...

do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm

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2011-05-13 15:33:13     Lost Garden: Visualizing the Creative Process

http://www.lostgarden.com/...sualizing-creative-process.html

As I coach new developers, I've taken to scribbling out ... diagram for visualizing the creative process again and a... coffee-ringed napkins. In order to limit my future abus...
The conversation usually starts with the following state ...
And when co

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2006-03-04 15:14:18     G. Polya, How to Solve It.

http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/polya.html

G. Polya, How to Solve It
Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd
ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ...

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2006-04-21 19:40:24     Category:Creativity Techniques - Mycoted

http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques

This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation ... listed in alphabetical order. Like most tools these crea... all have their good and bad points. I like to think of t... techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as... home for DI

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2015-09-12 11:11:31     The art and science of innovation | Nesta

http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/art-and-science-innovation?...

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2015-06-09 07:42:45     Do Creativity And Schizophrenia Share A Small Genetic Link? Maybe : Shots - Health News : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...a-share-a-small-genetic-link-maybe?...

The genetic underpinnings of psychosis are elusive and d... hundreds of common genetic mutations scattered throughou... that each bump up by just a tiny bit the risk of develop... illness like schizophrenia. Many people carry some set o... most don't

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2005-10-25 08:58:41     OK/Cancel » Blog Archive » Brainstorming vs. Idea Seeding: The New OK/Cancel Process

http://www.ok-cancel.com/...ng-the-new-okcancel-process.html

While the name of our process is %u201Cswitch sessions%u... the more general approach to creative collaboration idea... of starting from a blank slate and working together to c... final product, we document some idea seeds. These have n... advantages.

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2014-07-02 16:05:20     How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet | Open Culture

http://www.openculture.com/...-a-hand-drawn-spreadsheet.html

How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn ...
in Books, Writing | July 1st, 2014 Leave a Comment
JK-Rowlings-Phoenix-Plot-Outline
At the height of the Harry Potter novels’ popularity, ...

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