How To Be More Creative

How To Be More Creative Part 4 – Trusting Intuition

This is part 4 in a series, if you’d like to start at the top with How To Be More Creative, here is: 1. Introduction to creativity 2. Creativity and confusion 3. Learning To Draw One of the best discussions  on this blog was during a poll where we discussed how to use our intuition, [...]

October 6, 2010 READ MORE →

How To Be More Creative Part 3: Learning To Draw

This is part three in a series. If you’re just getting here, please check out: How to be more creative part 1 How to be more creative part 2 We’ve talked a lot on this blog about asking more questions, and always trying to ask better questions. The most creative people I know are usually [...]

September 9, 2010 READ MORE →

How To Be More Creative Part 3: Questions of Consistency

This is part 3 in a series. Read Part 1 and Part 2. You can’t do very much reading about creativity without bumping into Leonardo Da Vinci. In the last month I’ve read a couple of books about him, and what I didn’t know was unsurprisingly profound, although I had thought I knew the broad [...]

July 27, 2010 READ MORE →

How To Be More Creative Part 2 – Good Confusion

In part 1 of How To Be More Creative, we discussed problems with sameness, distractions, and the creative perils of being a passive spectator too often. Today I want to talk briefly about the best friend my own creativity has ever had: confusion. But first: The negative meaning(s) of confusion Confusion is rarely a pleasant [...]

July 9, 2010 READ MORE →

New Series: How To Be More Creative

In October of 2009 I went to a librarian conference in Monterey, California. The morning after the horrors of Life, Death, and Kettlebells in Monterey, I walked down the street and through the front doors of the hotel where I would attend Internet Librarian 2009. A lot of it was just what I expected. Redundant [...]

June 23, 2010 READ MORE →