Entries Tagged as 'Video'
How do we learn to be creative?
Tony Buzan has been a long-term influence on me. His ‘Radiant Thinking’ model using ‘Mind Maps’ is a great way, for us predominantly visual thinkers, to see relationships between ideas. Even though the idea of left and right brain has now been modified, his book Use Both Sides of Your Brain is well worth looking at for practical help with creativity.
Normal is not natural Tony Buzan
One technique I like for stimulating creativity is what I call ‘the opposite.’ It’s simply turning a situation on its head.When I was growing up teachers would often shame a child by saying, “Do you want to come up here and take the class?” But what if that actually happened? What if children were the teachers and adults the students?What if today, we had the attitude of what can I learn from everyone I encounter?
What is creativity?
What is creativity? Why should we care about it? Let’s start with this video.
Sir Ken Robinson believes that creativity will be [or now is] as important to our economic survival as literacy.
