Creative writing articles
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creativity and innovation management : why products fail!
- There is no sure fire route to commercial success but the probability of success can be increased. This is important for at least two reasons:a) Resource Management. The Economist (2003) states that 3000 bright ideas result in 100 worthwhile projects, which are winnowed down to four development programmes. And four such development programmes are required to stand any chance of getting one ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Forget thinking outside the box....get outside the box
- I happened to overhear a conversation the other day between two men?Young man has started learning about real estate investing. He has read books and attended seminars put on by some gurus who make more money selling information about real estate investing than they do investing in real estate BUT at least he is taking the initiative to learn more. This is more than most people will do....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Get creativity?
- Creativity is central to the management of our individual lives, but in modern times few people are able to access this as a resource. Alan Watts writes in The Wisdom of Insecurity:"We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives out of all proportion to 'instinctual wisdom'; which we are allowing to slump into atrophy. As a consequence we are at war within ourselves - the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The 7 simple steps to harnessing your creative power and achieving incredible success
- Let me repeat what I believe is the most powerful and fundamental knowledge available to man:"YOU CAN CREATE ANY ACTUAL PHYSICAL REALITY YOU WANT THROUGH THE INTENSE DESIRE, BELIEF AND PERSISTENCE OF YOUR MIND"Your desire for success brought this knowledge to you at this very moment, there is no doubt of that. But do you know how to harness it? To wield the power it makes available?...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Computer in the shop? what do you do now?
- Have you ever had one of those days when you just feel like something is missing? ? something just doesn't feel right? like you should be doing something but you can't remember what?Well, I had one of those days recently? my computer was in the shop for a minor repair. Ahhhhh! What was I going to do?Ok, so I planned to take my computer in for the repair. Then I would go shopping for ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tips on breaking the creative block
- There's no question that creating anything is hard to do. Here are some tips if you find yourself creatively blocked.Set a GoalSet a goal for yourself. For example, it could be to write one poem, one short story, to paint two small paintings or create three works of art. Don't make the goal too big.Set a Time TableGive yourself a time when you want your goal to be compl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creativity and broken eggs
- In 1420, the dignitaries of Florence held a competition.They offered the enormous prize of 200 gold florins to the architect whose genius could span the unfinished dome of the Florence Cathedral.This was a great challenge. Even the original builders of the cathedral in 1296 left writings hoping that God would offer a solution because they did not have one.Filippo Brunelleschi ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creative thinking the secret key to lasting success
- What is creativity anyway? Well, let us look at the word. Creativity means the capability to build, create something. It does mean to build something new but not necessarily something unique. And here is the first trap many of us tap into. We tend to think about creativity as building something unique, something that has never been there before.In fact, everything you create has never been ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trying to create from distorted perceptions?
- We've all met people who are "negative" ? negative thinkers who consistently see the glass as half empty.In certain situations, particularly stressful ones, even the most positive person can fall victim to this distorted thinking. As a creative artist, this kind of thinking can keep us away from our art and can keep us from enjoying it even when we manage to keep at it.Distorted P...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creativity, innovation, and science ? separate and distinct or not?
- There is a pervasive belief that creativity and innovation are separate and distinct from the concept of science. That creativity and innovation cannot be scientific. This is completely false.An event begins to fall into the realms of science when experiments are repeatable and the results reproducible. The myth that creativity occurs out of the blue combines to create the impression that i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to entertain a thought
- After studying scores of great thinkers like Leonardo Da Vinci, I think I've stumbled upon what really set them apart from the rest of the folks living (and thinking) at the same time.It's remarkably simple. They learned how to entertain a thought.Aristotle said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."Hmmm. To entertain a th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dancing on your brain: the cha-cha effect
- My grandmother used to say that the secret to living a good life is maintaining a flexible spine and a flexible mind. Whether we're talking about joints or brains, there's just no room for rigidity.Mark Twain once made a comment that illustrates my grandmother's idea perfectly. He said:"It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why teach thinking? why not ?
- The word 'creativity' has so many diverse meanings and interpretations. I remember telling an audience of teachers that creating a mess is also creative as long as new things and views are being conjured up. This led to much laughter and discussion about the meaning of 'creativity' (This notion of 'creative mess' was taken from master-thinker, Dr Edward de Bono).Most people feel that creati...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How a creation box can work for you
- Bring to mind a time when you decided that you wanted something in your life; a vacation, a special book, or a household item. Did you notice that things relating to what you were wanting appeared out of nowhere--either you overheard someone talking about it, noticed an advertisement, a billboard or even junk mail? This, my friends, is the power of the Law of Attraction at work. The Law of Attract...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - In between luck & effort
- I have one magical thought, lets see it more closely. Just look around & try to find out peoples who are successful, in sense of reality, with no efforts. You will find none.Now look around again & try to explore the peoples who are successful by morality of their efforts, and this you will find many.Their distinctive efforts have certainly taken them ahead, may be in changeable degr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 ways to boost your creativity
- Creativity is your birthright ? but can often be hidden in the everyday. To facilitate your personal development and self growth, here are some creativity tips you can use to resurrect, refresh and enhance your creative faculties.1. Look after yourself.Sleep well/Eat well/meditate/do what you enjoy and do it more often (if it is life enhancing!). Creativity is reduced when your sense...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Learn a life skill today!
- Did you ever watch your grandma knitting?Wasn't it boring? Didn't it seem to take forever?Most of us live life in the fast lane.Who needs to buy balls of yarn, search for patterns and spend - heaven forbid - the next three months making a jumper, when we can buy one in the high street for next to nothing.....So why bother learning to knit?the garme...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Who wants to be a creative genius?
- Can You Learn Creativity?Have you ever watched Robin Williams do a stand-up routine? Could so much creativity and spontaneity result from a highly organized approach? Definitely. Wild and funny thoughts don't come from nowhere. Comedians have habits of mind, and even the most spontaneous ones get better with practice, because they're training their brains to find the humor in situati...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of your intuition
- We all have enormous reserves of mental capacity that we habitually fail to use. There is no problem that we cannot solve, no obstacle we cannot overcome, and no goal we cannot achieve when we learn to use the incredible power of our mind to its full capacity. When we us the power of our mind to it's fullest our creative capacity is unlimited.All of the truly successful men and women in his...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Codifying creativity
- Can we codify creativity? Within these few words are a number of principles that must be identified and resolved before we can really answer the question.The first question is, what is creativity? What are we trying to codify?One useful definition of creativity is that it is problem identification and idea generation. Another is the production of a number of diverse and novel ideas. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Should you quit your job for your dream?
- The next time you're moodily sitting in your office, wishing you were living your dream instead, answer the following questions? or answer them now! They'll give you a sense of whether or not now's the time to make the break.My job is making me crazy; so crazy I'd do anything to quit.Highly agreeMildly agreeDon't really agreeStro...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - My work is my play - the journey from survival to creativity
- "For the love a' creation!", my father was fond of expounding, when "Pete" and "God" had run their course. It was years later until I realized that sentence actually held meaning for me ? other than an expression of exasperation. It is, most literally, the love of my life.For a remote viewer, creation is both the destination and the journey. It has a very real ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Magic in your spice rack
- Variety is the spice of life, but spices, historically are the stuff of magic! A spell, after all is really just a recipe and traditionally many of them involve plant life or herbs. Magic doesn't have to be complicated to work. In fact the simplest spells sometimes work best of all, because they most resemble an innocent wish and the doer is not attached to the outcome. Check out the magickal uses...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creativity myths
- Sustained myths about Creativity and Innovation lead to confusion, bad practice and bad decision making. Some of them include:1. Creativity requires Creative TypesWhile some theorists assert that there are creativity traits such as tolerance for ambiguity and intolerance to conformity, these assertions are countered by the fact that traits are hard to identify and are not stable nor ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Revenge of the sith ? creativity and structure
- The common belief is that lack of structure and randomness enhances creative output, whereas in truth, creativity is enhanced when it is organised, systematic and based on highly structured processes. This article will use Episode III of the Star Wars trilogy ? Revenge of the Sith ? to demonstrate that point.First, some basic concepts.a) We can measure creativity by observing the num...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top five journal exercises
- Keeping a journal is a form of creative expression that enhances the creativity coaching process. Keeping a journal develops emotional awareness, reinforces self-esteem and aids in problem-solving. Keeping a journal also provides a written record of artistic growth, struggle and change. Here are some basic exercises that I use throughout the creativity coaching process.DIALOGUE: Writing a d...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creative thinking versus critical thinking
- The process of creative thinking is often, mistakenly, intertwined with critical thinking. There is a tendency to write and edit simultaneously, couple hypothesis generation and evaluation, combine problem identification with solution.To increase effectiveness, one should first apply creative thought, which is meant to be daring, uninhibited, free-spirited, imaginative, unpredictable, and r...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to let the subconscious mind do the creative work
- From time immemorial mankind has wished for an Aladin's lamp, which would make wisheds come true.The closest thing to this magic lamp is the subconscious mind. The "genii" of the subconsious mind will work for you if you follow a certain process.How can we trap the subconscious mind into a great deal of our creative work for us.Here are eight tested ways.1. Gi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Sing & be well
- When people find out that I'm a music therapist, the comments I hear most often are "I wish I could sing!" or "Oh, I love to sing, but I'm not good enough to do it in front of anyone". Some of these people tell me that, as children, a parent, teacher or someone else told them that they should just mouth the words because they didn't have a good enough voice.Singing is ou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Problem solving techniques for business and life
- Learning a few good problem solving techniques can improve your bottom line and your life.Do you ever run out of good ideas, or go around in circles trying to come up with a solution for a persistent problem? Maybe you just need to learn some simple problem solving techniques, and then start applying them. Choose one or two of the methods below, and get in the habit of using them in ...
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