Topography of Self Growth

Personal growth isn't just about improving yourself from your current situation. By using the framework of topography, you'll get a bigger picture of what it takes to achieve peak performance - in several areas of your life.

Pop Goes the Weasel: Thinking Outside the Box

Thinking outside of the box, also known as derivative, breakthrough or lateral thinking, is a mental process that involves the generation of new ideas or applying different associations to existing ideas. In other words in means looking at things from different angles and adapting them for practical, every day use.

The Press for Creativity

In order for organizations to increase their ability to solve problems, develop new ideas and to have employees who feel a high degree of accomplishment, they must provide the space for random events to occur. Instead of working overtime, taking that class after work now seems like an even better idea. When people and organizations make time for random combinations to occur, their creativity can't help but break free on the open sky.

Try This Brainpower Quiz

Think you know a bit about the brain and how it works? See how you do on this brainpower quiz.

Creative Geniuses are Simultaneously both Humble and Proud

If you met someone on the street would you know if they were a genius or not by simply talking to them for a couple of minutes? Well I can tell, but most folks cannot and this is because people are too quick to judge, stereotype and categorize. For instance if someone appears to be too arrogant, we think they do not know what they are talking about or are simply an braggart or a fool. No intelligent person would say such things, right?

How to Increase IQ? Solving Problems by Selective Encoding -Part III

Selective encoding is required to solve the complex problems. Cross out six letters from the following sequence so that the remaining letters, without altering their sequence, spell a well known word: B S I A N X L A E T N T A E R S. An airplane crashes on the U.S.-Canadian border. In what country are the survivors buried? For the answers read this article.

It's About Time

Time marches on, but can we hear it? Time slips away, but do we see it?

My Buddy

What made the hawk come to my yard? And, what made him stay when I stepped outside?

Creativity Process Demystified

No matter what you have been hearing what others have been telling you, the creativity process is not a process so complex that common folks like you and I cannot understand it.

Advice from a Sage Speechwriter: The Best Advice My Mother Ever Gave Me

Learning at age 16, it wasn't always about me, was the most valuable lesson my mother could have taught me. Putting others first would give me more pleasure than being No. 1.

Enjoying The Creative Process: The Tale of Two Culinary Perfectionists

My partner and I love cooking together. It's something that we both value and enjoy in our lives, from the choosing to the preparing, the cooking and finally the eating. But we didn't always appreciate it as we do now. Here’s what used to happen, and how it relates to how you enjoy YOUR creative processes-

Solving Those Difficult Business Problems

Often it is our perception of problem boundaries that actually stop us making progress so why not temporarily remove them, move or bend them a little and see what happens? This is a brief introduction to a problem solving technique known as Boundary Relaxation.

Creativity Management: Synthesise Collaboration With Competition

Creativity and Innovation Management: maximising quality and output....

Mindfulness and Painting: Playing Without Expectations

Think you need to take training in order to be an artist? Start playing!

Lessons From The Subway

In solving problems, I often recall a valuable lesson I learned while traveling the subway in Washington D.C.