“Everyone is creative: we can all innovate given time, freedom, autonomy, experience to draw on, perhaps a role model to emulate and the motivation to get on with it.
But there are times when even the most creative person gets bored, starts going round in circles, or hits a cul-de-sac. So here are 7 unusual creativity boosters that research has shown will increase creativity:
1. Psychological distance
People often recommend physical separation from creative impasses by taking a break, but psychological distance can be just as useful.
Participants in one study who were primed to think about the source of a task as distant, solved twice as many insight problems as those primed with proximity to the task (Jia et al., 2009).”
Read more at Psyblog
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How excellent. This may prove useful to a friend of mine.
pray to janus? rofl!
inneresting, because chaos magicians train by trying to reconcile opposites in their minds–i.e., all chairs are green & no chairs are green (courtesy of steve martin, who has a BA in philosophy!
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good stuff, but too mental overall
for every concept or construct, a physical manifestation:
http://kotaku.com/5508520/f1-driver-plays-modern-warfare-2-while-riding-a-bike
http://resourcesonbalance.com/neurocom/protocols/sensoryImpairment/index.aspx