Creativity

What if you were 75 and had embroidered all your life. Worsening arthritis eventually makes embroidery too painful. You put down your needle, but your creative passion continues…

Have you ever run out of ideas? I have. For someone who makes a living from coming up with ideas, coming up with no ideas is a big…

Have you heard the phrase, “She has a mind like a steel trap”? If not, it’s a compliment. It describes someone with the ability to grasp complex ideas…

In most jobs, you’re not paid to think. Yours might be an exception. It’s not just jobs. Throughout our lives, thinking has rarely been encouraged or rewarded. From…

In what has become a famous speech1, Neil Gaiman addressed the University of the Arts class of 2012. He had this piece of advice for students: “When you…

Francis Bacon said that all painting is an accident. There are people who’d point to Jackson Pollock’s paintings as evidence of art by accident. But this isn’t what…

Everything that can be invented has been invented. So said Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, in 1899. In the year after Charles boldly claimed that…

Dr Wayne Lotherington PhD distilled the 3 pillars of business creativity into the acronym EAT, where E is environment, A is attitude and T is tools. The idea…

The secret to breakthrough business success mightn’t be where you think it is – where you’ve been searching, where your competitors think it is. Most businesses still exist…

Everyone wants to be right. Nobody wants to be wrong. The desire to be right is wrong. Here’s what’s wrong with wanting to be right. Firstly, the desire…