If you and the people around you are all stuck, then you have to get creative. As I wrote in Smart Thinking, an important ...

This creative short explores the popular three-marker art challenge, putting color selection and artistic problem-solving to ...

Nearly all great ideas follow a similar creative process and this articles explains how this process works. Understanding this is important because creative thinking is one of the most useful skills ...

Creativity in working life can be approached as a learning process. Researchers Soila Lemmetty and Kaija Collin from the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Education investigated what it means to ...

Editor’s Note: Janet English, Academic Coach for El Toro High School in California, spent six months in Finland on a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. While there, she discovered a tool to ...

Creative problem-solving can be an exhilarating experience. You get a triple benefit: the euphoric 'aha' moment of solving a puzzle, the pride of accomplishing a goal, and the deeper self-discovery of ...

Identify the specific problem that you have. You need to get to the root cause of the problem. It often calls for asking “why?” many times, until you found that root cause. Find a “generic” TRIZ ...

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"Being both very high or very low in executive control can be beneficial for creative problem-solving, but you get to the right answer in different ways," said Christine Chesebrough, Feinstein ...

The brain does not have one creative center. The frontal cortex, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and white matter are all involved in functions that contribute to creative thinking. Despite our best ...

Most parents hear “I’m bored” and immediately reach for a solution. A screen, an activity, a scheduled class. It feels like ...