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Twelve traits of creative thinking that are not usually formally addressed in public education. Read More














Great article!
Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked for sharing...likely again and again!
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Very useful tips on Creative Thinking!...Free flow of narration!...Enjoyed reading it!
Trusting my instincts (anti-dote):
A)Tri-Une Brain Theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
B)Bowen Family Systems Theory
http://www.thebowencenter.org/pages/theory.html
C)Karpman Drama Triangle Theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
D)Rep-tile Spatial Math Theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep-tile
E)Hysteresis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis
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Very useful tips on Creative thinking!...Enjoyed reading the article!...Lucid style!
alamathibymahadevasarma.blogspot.com
Very useful tips on Creative thinking!...Enjoyed the lucid narration!...Tks.
Useful tips on Creative
Useful tips on Creative thinking!...Enjoyed the lucid style of narration!...Tks.
Twelve Things you Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking
Very Useful Tips on Creative Thinking!...Lucid Narration!...Enjoyed reading it!
Creative Thinking
Very useful tips on Creative Thinking!...Lucid narration!...Enjoyed Reading it!
Very inspiring on Creative
Very inspiring on Creative Thinking. Thank you, I am Bookmarked for sharing too.
Twelve Things you Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking
Great article! Michael Michaelko was one of my top creativity gurus who set me on my creativity and innovation career. In fact, the first pooibt "You Are Creative" is the title of the first book that I authored since 1998 and today is in its 16th printing and still going strong. I'm still continuously inspired by Michael's work.
Do NOT trust your instincts...
I'm sorry but you're not showing both sides. Picking out highly successful people and giving examples of others not seeing their potential, let alone encouraging it, doesn't mean everyone can be a success at what they'd like to do.
In the Fedex example...well of course all the competitors would say that! They're competitors! Anyone would say it's a great idea.
Why not balance all the examples of success with most of the folks who appear on American Inventor? They're instincts (falsely) tell them they have the invention of the century so in pursuit of a (bad) dream they poison and impoverish their family.
(And I know this first hand.)
It's not right to not show both sides. The costs of reality must precede the wonderful possibilities of creativity.
Agreed
Totally agree.
I agree conditionally, based
I agree conditionally, based on the context of the article. Inspirational writings tend to be overly phrased as absolutes when it may be better to temper them. For example, creativity may depend on being able to reach out to areas that aren't obvious, but to turn that into an actual creation involves logic and knowledge to figure out which connections actually work.
But when the goal of such things is to jar people away from unconscious blinders, the tempering factors could serve as distractions; a reason to ignore the point of the main message. Either approach resonates with different people.
Outcome dependent
I like the article. I considered "like"ing it.
But I feel like it has the salesman touch of outcome dependence (i.e. they are emotionally connected to the sale).
Great article but poor
Great article but poor conclusion. "To create, a person... must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder." The list of creative thinkers past and present with mental disorders such as bipolar, depression, etc. is substantial.
My thoughts exactly.
My thoughts exactly.
Precisely, and it's
Precisely, and it's incredibly ableist and hurtful to claim otherwise.
Yeah, I caught that too. It
Yeah, I caught that too. It occurred to me upon reading that, in my own past at least, whether or not I had a "mental disorder" was largely dependent on how happy my family & colleagues were with the outcome of my "creative thinking."
Good article but needs some clarification
This is pretty accurate about the creative process but as one commentator said there is another facet. The author somewhat touches on it in his conclusion. He should have looked to Aaron Copland's advice that many artists need calm, secure environment - in his case it was a counter to the rabid McCarthyism of the day as well as the Stalinistic fear in the USSR that COpland saw squashing creativity. But it applies to what another composer Milton Babbit said, "I like to eat (and he was quite aware there was not a large enoughg market for his music to subsist on) and that is why I became a professor of composition and music"
On a much more mundane level, the article would work if it made clear that "creative thought processes" associated with those who have "succeeded" in creating wonderful works is attainable to us all. It is basically much like a muscle we need to use wisely. So this type of thinking can be applied to something as simple as a better way to run a marketing office, enhance a retailer's window display, or improving in your hobby of music, painting, inventing, rtc. The problem in Western society is raising the creator of works as something superhuman (blame it on Hegel and Nietschie (sp?) and therefore only accessible to a few. The article does a great job deflating this misconception. The article promotes a healthier attitude as is ound in some non-Western societies where creative thinking is exercised through communal dance, music, artistic expression and storytelling - usuall to celebrate or get through the process of feeding and housing and celebrating the arrival of births or passing of deaths.
The author also forgot to add in this - The exercise of creativity does not occur in a vacuum. Music composers and to a lesser extent writers know this very well. The poem or music has to be performed to be heard and to learn from it - otherwise it is idle speculation and dead figures. You can write for yourself, but you end up learning much more about yourself when you share this for others. In turn, this refines your creativity much better than painting alone and stuffing the results into a closet - at most that produces an elementary level of ability.
At worsrt, it can create a delusion that your creativity and its expression is so valuable you can live off it - trust me, most creators earn their keep doing more than creating. Beethoven had monetary support from patrons, taght lesson (Clementi being one of his most famous pupils), and concertized featuring his and his contemporaires works. For the best example of a creator/artist who was a smart about feeding, clothing and attending to his family - read about JS Bach in The Bach Reader.
"...raising the creator of works as something Superhuman."
So true, and so damaging. It's the reason I gave up as often as I started over (because if it was something I was meant to do, the outcome would be better right?), and it was nearly impossible for me and my fragile little ego to interact or collaborate with other artists (because it's only a matter of time before they figure out I'm a fraud, right?). Saddest part is, when I did finally take that leap, it was with a creative partner who DID believe that creativity was something bestowed upon a few select people; unlike myself, this person believed they could do no wrong as their creativity was preordained, and I WAS, in fact, treated like a fraud and a failure. It's been 10+ years, and I still have to actively fight against the damage that was done to my psyche.
The funniest and saddest part
The funniest and saddest part about that is, I have since found out that, in no uncertain terms, everyone thought he was the fraud and I was the artist.
That's exactly what the 12points was about
That's exactly what the 12 points are about, it made me feel fantastic, I'm actually working on my ideas at the moment and it made me feel normal! What's a fraud? you think that because, you don't have confidence in yourself, small steps, make it a hobby while you earn a living, take classes to help inspire you or find your forte' . Your partner sounded like a egotistical prat who got off on putting you down. What is an expert? The purchaser, the public or the critic! $2,000,000 for blue poles & now it's worth more- to me it's just a large canvas with paint splashed on it , someone else will see something different. I like to paint but my forte is hairstyling so, I have been working on some ideas, if I talked to the people close to me! I would get many negative comments so I'm pursuing them and when I achieve my goal, however it turns out I didn't give up because of the negative comments... I love saying to myself in the words of Martin Luther King, just the way he said it... I, Have a Dream.....and a smile & keep thinking.
This whole article seems a
This whole article seems a little ridiculous. Most of the people mentioned were inherently more creative than others. How does one see from multiple perspectives? It is an innate ability, not something that someone learns to do.
I have tried it and find that it is very difficult for me to do without the help of someone else to bounce ideas off of. It is not something I can do by myself. This would make me inherently less creative than a lot of other creative people who seem to have an endless stream of new ideas, new projects, new pictures, and new art.
Some people really are more creative than others. It's a hard idea to swallow but it is a true one.
I think the problem is that
I think the problem is that creativity is a subjective measure. I would argue that bouncing ideas off another person does not mean you're less creative, but that's because of how I see the term and I can understand it being viewed in a way that would support your argument. On the other hand, if someone is an excellent painter but has trouble framing subjects (i'm thinking of landscapes in particular), while another has a good eye but a poor hand, there's no reason they shouldn't both get credit for a cooperative effort.
I find the whole discussion
I find the whole discussion fascinating. We don't see inspirational writings that tell us, "Everyone is athletic!" Instead, we see things like, "Anyone can be physically fit and enjoy sports and outdoor activity." So why, "Everyone is creative!"?
In that scenario, athleticism
In that scenario, athleticism is also subjective. If I met someone who played tennis every day, ran marathons, etc, I would absolutely consider that person "athletic." It is, in fact, possible for everyone to be athletic in some way, regardless of age or disability. It's not possible for everyone to be a full-time professional athlete, however, and that may be where we get stuck in the terminology. Anyone can be creative or athletic, not everyone can get paid or be famous for it, and that doesn't necessarily have much to do with the quality of their work.
Both right
As Henry Ford once said: "Those who believe they can; and those who believe they can't are both right."
To be at one's most creative
To be at one's most creative doesn't mean one's most creative in comparing to other's.
Mantle and Mind
Mantle and Mind
by Ronald Patrick Marriott on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 4:56pm
"I believe Mantle's are the missing link in the Earths physiology and the tie between Man Metaphysics and the Dimensional world."
Ronald Patrick Marriott.
There are electrical fields/antiparticles/molecules that are made up to make Mantles, this is helping produce light or high energy photons in our dimensional world.
When first made, they store Carbon, Liquid Oxygen and Antimatter, this combination allows them to produce high energy Photons. After their birth, they stay in our dimension producing High energy Photons that are in our experience, then when Mantles reach a higher vibration/energy level, they leave our visual plane/ dimension.
(don't forget Love is a higher vibration)
Before they return to release their contents above storms, Mantles sit in that "other dimension" producing High energy photons in another "Dimension" or "Wave world" making that world alive for our brains photons to travel in.
This is a proven fact that is expressed by such people as David Wilcock, Gregg Braden and others that said "there is a measurable increase in photons when an individual used there mental abilities to travel outside their bodies to see thru time, dimensions to read or invade another aspect of our world where their measuring devices were set up to record this".
I believe that Mantles help by supplying an environment for this to happen. Meditation and dreaming at night are all supported in this manor. Photons leave your brain directed by your consciousness and travel thru or in "wave world" where Mantles are producing high energy photons. Mantles stay until they return falling apart above storms rejuvenating our atmosphere and Ionosphere and adding to our dimensional environment with Antimatter.
Mantles are a self contained Antimatter sphere wrapped in Liquid Oxygen and Carbon. Mantles are made by Lightning and constructed of Liquid Oxygen that feeds thru Carbon to the Antimatter producing high energy photons in the dimensional worlds.
Its responsible for most of our Atmospheric Ionospheric and now Dimensional worlds including making it possible for our brains to function in the Aether. This is achieved by producing High energy Photons in another dimension creating the necessary environment for that to take place. Dream a little dream and watch it become reality.
Ever wonder how that worked?
There's a substance named "Mono-atomic Gold", This is a Gold substance that is treated with heat and dissolved in water to produce a molecular metal to ingest. This form of metal is not poisonous and can be taken internally to improve Aether connection via Brain "waves" which contain photons. These are boosted to a higher level by hard wiring brain connections at the DNA level. This will achieve a better response level to the Aether via brain and mind. Your brain has the best and purest connection providing high speed connections to the aether. This is the same Gold process that Moses gave his people at the time of the Ten Commandments.
When we are at higher vibrations of love, we are at high vibrational values, those are closer to the aether and where Mantle is existing. To be closer to Love is closer to everything in mind and heart that exists in the aether or universe. Combining Love and Mind visions brings us our Manifestations.
Law of Attraction in schools 18 reasons
Law Of Attraction in Schools 18 Reasons
by Ronald Patrick Marriott on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 1:16pm
Law Of Attraction is a method for bringing to us what we want in life. We are born with this information in us, but develops slowly or not at all. This powerful information for our lives has no instruction Manuel. But one is available now. Law Of Attraction should be part of our educational system, to grab a better hold on the way the true world is affected by our minds and by what we are thinking and feeling. Most people are not aware of its powerful influence in their lives. Love and fear are feelings, the basis for creating what we truly want, teaching how to work its powerful influences should be done early in life for the affect to be accomplished. The universe will work out the rest as it always does.
Benefits:
1) Removing fear while gaining trust and self reliance from learning from the universe
2) Manifestation of passions on a personal time table
3) Personal goal setting
4) Learning on time with the universes scheduling "perfect"
5) Faster path into the world with no wasting time "wrong collage choice" or developing early school study habits for your passions in life.
6) This advantage to this guidance, would be equivalent to giving them their own personal guide "Drivers manual" to their passions and how to achieve these gifts in their lives independent of all outside influences.
7) Personal development at the best level possible without failure consciousness "fear"
8) Love and respect as a life style for the population
9) Positive reinforcement for children growing up following these people "we are all Gods in training"
10) Happy successful people so less crime and punishment
11) Less fear in the population so less stress as a consciousness in our society as a whole
12) Better students in school and greater learning experience and expansion of mind and control
13) Teaching how you bring the life you want into reality
14) Trusting the people you elect to office? Maybe a new concept in control of earths future
15) Awaken the mind of all able minded people without ego
16) Less Bullying in our society
17) Teaching loyalty, charity, honor, bravery and respect
18) Bringing creativity to the student early in life
If Law Of Attraction is brought to our world as a reality for everyone, it has to be a taught early in our educational system to have the full effect of this knowledge base to maximize effectiveness in each humans life span. Full control for a humans life expectancy. The social influences from society and the human being brain development are out of synchronicity which creates confusion in unacknowledged minds.The mind is developing before the the human is available for social responsibilities. To bring the human being to a healthier position in the world, would allow manipulation of the individuals own passions in their personal world independent of the usual social responsibilities "awakened".
The control that the human being would have in their own development would be incredible and avoid many bad things in their life like, boredom with life that lead to drugs, alcohol abuse, physical violence, bullying, that are all anger related.This advantage to this guidance, would be equivalent to giving them their own personal guide to their passions and how to achieve these gifts in their lives independent of all outside influences.
As we mature and learn to develop our language base, we begin to talk. Our minds are already connecting with our souls as one, training valuable chemicals in our brains to bring emotions into the act. The way to show children how to make their own world better is to teach them to use Creative Visualization, which is the asking for information for the Laws Of Attraction to respond to. This will bring to them the information or experience they want to further their own personal life experience.
Isn't it amusing that we trust the answers we get from our mind or universe, while calculating for things in our daily lives. These thoughts or calculations are coming to us via the experiences we had in our past, or is it?
The Law Of Attraction is the Universe responding to thoughts from your mind, thoughts and expressions that come to us are excepted as truth, then we go on about our merry way? These answers we gather are coming to us via Mind, God or Universe. That trust in our Universe talking with us is excepted as truth. We need instructions for this process early in our lives to bring answers to us not provided to us by Parents , Teachers or Television.
To communicate with the source, we need to have instructions to gain a controlled path to the information desired.That process is Creative Visualization, asking by envisioning a desire via mind picture.
Educating the individual early in life, provides an successful avenue for this so fear, boredom and "Lack" does not effect us.This will provide a stepping stone to the next level in each individuals world. This will speed up our communication and information for our lives and passions, eliminating fear, mis-trust and failure.Passions, are guides for life, each individual has different passions. Having the directions for achieving goals or passions creates success that accumulates in us and influences our future with positive feelings. Grabbing this information by the horns, so to speak, will develop in us a sense of safety and curiosity to further our lives, all by our own doing. This life is a one time shot "maybe" why not maximize the effect by teaching these principals. The ancients taught these lessons to their children, the Indians taught the children in their hunting techniques.The basis to this is education is LOVE MEDITATION PASSION. The old button pusher, LOVE. It fixes everything and makes us grow. So why not in school? Every civilization known to man has been using their mind techniques for everything until we get to our present day school. Then its books, and Pre-programmed knowledge that we don't need all of.
Our own government has been quoted as saying that the USA is behind the educational process and this is the reason why. We don't teach mind control and education. They learn more Mind work at home then we do. Our families are busy enjoying the fruits of our works and not spending the time necessary for these lessons to be taught at home.
We only remember the things we need for our PASSIONS and the rest gets filed. Of course we need to read write and communicate ideas but, we need to put the directions for our minds information gathering and manifestations into the worlds view for all to have. Developing our world and eliminating what creates so much pain fear and anger. All of us, and the Drug companies, are in battle with the mind. We fight to become and or understand our lives with the daily stresses banging at our doors. The Law Of Attraction can/does take care of these stresses. If we assimilate into each child the directions to their world and how MINDS control this, then we have beaten most of the stresses in life, with the MIND. The use of Drivers education is OK and used for everyone. Why not bring the directions for the MIND to school, and teach each one of us how our thoughts work in the world and with each other. This would maximize our civilizations knowledge base bringing out the best of each of us.
I GIVE YOU "The Law Of Attraction In Schools"
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