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For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps
A Technique for Producing Ideas - the simple five-step formula anyone can use to be more creative in business and in life!
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The Noetic Spiral works the same way with our creative process. It moves through four distinct but flowing phases:
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully selecti... See more
First comes Gathering – the active consumption of ideas, experiences, and information. It's the reading, the listening, the observing. But unlike our usual content binge, it's intentional and purposeful. Think of it as carefully selecti... See more
Zoe Scaman • The Noetic Spiral
1. Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you’re reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.
8. As you develop skills, write up best-practices protocol... See more
8. As you develop skills, write up best-practices protocol... See more
Creative thinking requires our brains to make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas. Is this a skill that we are born with or one that we develop through practice?
James Clear • Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event
There is a large literature on how to generate new ideas—brainstorming, meditation, visualization, collect many before evaluation, hypnagogia, adopting another’s point of view, “what if . . ?”, imaginary mentor, and others. Yet John Dewey’s original argument remains sound. He wrote that the most reliable source of new design ideas is “reflection” o
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