“Jootsing”: The Key to Creativity
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“Jootsing”: The Key to Creativity
Start somewhere bad to get somewhere good. A few weeks ago, I interviewed psychologist Adam Alter about his book Anatomy of a Breakthrough . In it, he writes about the “creative cliff illusion,” the notion that good creative ideas will either come quickly or not at all. Unfortunately, our intuition has that one approximately backward. In studies of... See more
David Epstein • Pour Out Lesser Ideas to Get to Great Ones
Juxtaposition works. So mix things up. Pursue more than one interest. Stick things that look different next to each other. Move things around. Make something a fixed point and move other ideas/objects/pictures around it to see what happens. Make your interests messy. This is how slow hunches happen. It’s also a really good creative shortcut.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
I said earlier that if we want to encourage creativity, we should just get out of its way. That was an ambiguous statement and I’d like to clear up some of the ambiguity. I will insist that creativity is not rare at all, which becomes clear once we identify the obstacles, organizational and personal, that get in its way.
Is creativity really scarce?... See more
Is creativity really scarce?... See more