Original Thinkers Must Have Massive Data - Information And Observational Input

Every industry has super innovators and creative geniuses. These are the people who make change, but for such original thinkers they must have massive amounts of data and information input. Indeed that information input must also span across several industries or industry sub sectors to do any good.

Creativity Is For Life Not Just For Workshops! 3 Top Tips

Picture the scene. You've just returned from a weekend break away, a creative retreat. You've enjoyed the weekend immensely and come back feel more energised and in love with life and your creativity than you have done in years. After a few days (or even hours!) back in your normal world though, the events and impositions of daily life start to take grip on your creative work again, and the red hot spurt of motivation you experienced has become more of a lukewarm trickle. What happened? Why didn't the creativity and the energy last? Well, creativity is for life, not just for workshops. Here are 3 top tips how you CAN maintain that creative energy in your daily life, not just the occasional weekend:

Favorite Hobbies - Watching Television

For many Americans, their favorite hobby is watching television. This may not sound like a hobby to some people, but it is. The definition of a hobby is to do some leisure or recreational activity outside of one's career. Watching television is probably the most common hobby there is.

Favorite Hobbies - Reading

Reading is one of the most constructive hobbies a person can have. The difference between ignorance and knowledge is only a book away. Reading stimulates your mind. It makes you think. You can learn to do many other hobbies by reading. It will generate in you new ideas and a more sound of understanding of the world and those around you. All great men and women have had a love of reading and a passion for learning.

Walking and Creativity

We can often think that the main benefit of walking is physical. However, Thom Hartmann, author of Walking Your Blues Away, thinks there’s more to walking than just good physical health.

Warning - Reading These 7 Books May Change Your Life

Have you ever noticed how many ways you can be busy in order to avoid things that are not comfortable for you to do? I was quite good at avoiding reading, until the day I read Matthew McConaughey's story in Parade Magazine.

Why You Should Become A Mastermind

We all know what happened after September 11, when airlines and other firms started to downsize. Thousands and thousands of highly qualified people were laid off to roam the streets looking for jobs. Thousands more left colleges and joined the thousands already on the streets hoping to find a job.

Sculpture Is The Best Form Of Active Meditation

Sculpture is one of the best forms of active meditation - what does that mean?

How To Be Creative & Be Happy – The Importance Of Connecting With Others

Although we sometimes feel far from happy or creative, we actually all have within us the resources we need to lead a life of creativity and happiness. We've experienced and glimpsed enough of both being creative and being happy to know what we love and want more of, and what we don’t love and need less of. Each of us are unique creative people, so we each have a different recipe for a creative and happy life. However, there are some basic ingredients common to everyone's recipe. In this article, we're going to focus on one of the most important: connecting with others.

Creative Geniuses and College

Does a Creative Genius need to finish college to insure a successful life? Well who says that just because a creative genius goes to college they will make more money? In fact, there has been a few studies that say that those high IQ people who go to more than two-years of a University Level perform less at the creative genius level.

Does My Bum Look Big In This?

Joking aside, what sort of question is this anyway? Does it help, is there likely to be a way forward, can we develop a win-win situation? Much of creative thinking and hence innovation projects are based on subtle questions being asked at the right time. The art of questioning is paramount.

What Is It You Have?

What is it that you have right now as you are reading? Are you still despising it and call it little when God had ordained your prosperity and fulfillment through it?

Creativity Killers - How A Clown In Your Kitchen Kills Your Creativity

If you had a clown suddenly appear in your kitchen, you'd get quite a shock. If he was there every time you went back to kitchen though, for weeks on end, the impact would be drastically reduced. After a while, you'd barely notice him at all. Read on to find what this has to do with your creativity, and how you can begin to overcome a creativity killer you might not even have realised you had.