Archive for August, 2009
Creativity and living overseas
The Scientific American Mind issue on newsstands for September/October has my Head Line brief about a study that supports the idea that living abroad increases a person’s creativity. Do you think living out of your own element would increase or decrease your creativity? Do you think creativity could be enhanced even considering regional differences? (Such [...]
Does madness influence creativity?
I ran across this link to the PRI show, Studio 360. Often I hear the program, but obviously missed this particular one in that they try to determine if madness is a pre-requisite for genius creativity. One example is the artist Munch whose artistic creativity disappeared after he concluded therapy. There is a discussion of [...]
Add a little distance for more creativity
One way to increase one’s creativity is to add some distance between you and the issue. Have a problem? Determine how someone else might respond. Or treat the problem as if it were “unlikely.” Oren Shapira and Nira Liberman write in Scientific American that treating things in the abstract (in this case, by lending distance) [...]
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