Why You Should Pretend to Work on Projects for Someone Else & 4 Other Science-Backed Ways to Improve Your Creativity
Use these unconventional methods to be more creative every day.
How to Become a Master of Your Own Creativity
I always try to go a layer deeper with my guests. Sometimes people are so good at what they do, they get lost for words. Because if your skill is to
How to Prime Your Brain for Creativity (Infographic)
Experiment with these ideas to find your creativity sweet spot.
How Writers Can Grow by Pretending to Be Other People
The author and editor Kate Bolick found that "imaginary time-traveling"—projecting herself into the life of someone else—helped her feel closer to women she admired.
Creativity for Entrepreneurs: 4 Tips
We spoke to Jonah Lehrer, author of the bestselling Imagine: How Creativity Works, to learn how entrepreneurs can be more innovative.
The Surprising Creativity Killer We All Want More Of
3 Surefire Ways To Jumpstart Your Creativity
How Daydreaming Can Lead To More Creativity
Were you that kid who was constantly getting called out for daydreaming?<br>"Pay attention."<br>"Stop daydreaming."<br>"Is anybody in there?"<br>Me too...
Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
Tactics to Spark Creativity
Even people who lack ideas can set the scene for inspiration. Daydreaming, a belt of booze or even gazing at the color green can help.
Boost Your Creativity With These 5 Steps
Youve probably had moments when you could use a boost of creativity, such as when that college essay prompt is staring you in the face and your keyboa
5 ways teachers can improve student learning based on current brain research
Educators can positively influence students’ learning by understanding how the brain is shaped by their early experiences—and how it can be rewired and reorganized to work more quickly and efficien…
Teachers tap into brain science to boost learning
Research on the brain and how we think and act is influencing the way some teachers teach. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters goes into a classroom where the instructor uses different methods to engage different parts of the students’ brains, then checks with a neuroscientist about whether that strategy actually works.
Can Project-Based Learning Close Gaps in Science Education?
An encouraging new report describes preliminary, first-year outcomes from a study of 3,000 middle school students that shows kids can, in fact, learn more in science classrooms that adopt a well-designed, project-focused curriculum.
How Freewriting Can Boost Your Creativity
Freewriting is a technique in which the author writes their thoughts quickly and continuously, without worrying about form, style, or even grammar. Alongside…
A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity
Recognize what your creative strengths are and then work on amplifying the others.
The 10 deadly factors that threaten to kill your creativity—and how to beat them
Sometimes struggle to keep up your creativity? It's likely one of these is standing in your way.
5 Ways to Use Student Choice to Improve Learning
Providing students with opportunities to make choices in their learning process can improve their long-term decisionmaking skills, says Thomas Armstrong.
