There is an entire generation of people who grew up believing they aren’t creative because someone in high school told them they weren’t good at art. Until recently, the standard definition of ...

I have learned in life in general and in software development in particular that it is far easier to be critical of a proposed idea than it is to be creative in coming up with a new or different idea.

Being creative is a source of happiness for many people. Whether engaging in art, music, writing, cooking, gardening, crafting, or inventing, stretching your creativity muscle is good for you and for ...

I’ve had my fair share of mortifying moments, but I’d never heard the term creative mortification until I happened upon it in author Peggy Orenstein’s newest book, Unraveling. While others were making ...

Tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E give the appearance of being able to carry out creative tasks – such as writing a poem or painting a picture – in a way that’s often indistinguishable from what we can do ...

I was recently interviewed about the topic of creativity, and while I hardly consider myself to be the most creative person I know, my interviewer saw enough to want to chat about it. I found our ...

Have a creative outlet has long been considered good for your well-being, but a new study suggests it will help you be better at your job. Researchers from San Francisco State University surveyed 341 ...

Creative people are troublemakers. They’re druggies. They’re slightly bonkers. And they usually dress funny... or so many of us would like to think. Creative people are, by definition, different. Of ...

Being creative is not the same thing as being an artist–and vice versa. In fact, the two titles share more differences than they do similarities. A 2010 IBM survey of 1,500+ CEOs from various fields ...

Have you ever been in a conversation with someone working in a creative field, and jealously confessed that you were “just not born with a creative bone in your body”? This is bias, created by ...

Creativity isn’t a trait that some people have and others don’t. Before I explain why that’s true, let me first define what I mean by creativity. If one hundred people looked at the same abstract ...

The most usual presenting problem a client brings to a creativity coach is that he or she is not creating. The client is blocked, resistant, stalled, unmotivated. Typically, this blockage has lasted ...