The Psychology of Creativity

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3 жыл бұрын

Creativity is a highly valued and sought after skill; we all need to solve problems, think in novel ways, and generate ideas, but can creativity be learned?
This talk provides a practical framework to help you improve your creative thinking, enhance your problem solving and get greater access to your naturally creative brain.
You'll discover how creativity follows a process that can be developed at every stage. You'll learn how to challenge your assumptions and reframe problems. You'll discover techniques to help you generate more ideas and think more laterally. You'll even learn why you have ideas in the shower and how to access more creative brain states.
The talk will cover the following:
Creativity as a process, and how to build the creative habit
How questions help reframe problems and challenge your assumptions
How to promote more lateral thinking using divergent thinking strategies
Understanding convergent thinking
The neuroscience of "A-ha moments" and how to access creative brain states
The implications for improving creativity and problem solving
The speaker is Phil Dobson, author of "The Brain Book" and Founder of BrainWorkshops. Phil turns insights from neuroscience and cognitive and behavioural psychology into applicable skills for the modern workplace. His learning programmes provide brain-based toolkits of practical skills, backed by scientific research, helping people apply what we know about the brain to improve their performance and creativity at work.

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@SuperStevestan 3 ай бұрын

a true creative always questions everything, even the problem, its our default setting

@charleswachira7386 9 ай бұрын

This is gold. Exactly what I needed

@chrismalcomson7640 2 жыл бұрын

I'm among the best at my creative dicipline and I also teach classes all over the world. You can teach people to be creative by breaking it down into small elements as the video shows, but in my experience that only goes as far as the individual is willing to take it.. The really creative people will continue to experiment and explore even if its counter intuitive and almost certain to fail. Its like a puzzle where you don't know what the pieces look like, so you have to invent the pieces. I wanted to learn bronze casting as a part of what I do. Its taken me 15 years of experimentation to get to where I wanted to get and I'm still working on it. Most people would think me mad for spending so much time on a problem but I wouldn't give up even if it killed me. I was teaching a class a few years ago and was showing my students a simple task, I glanced up at them standing around my table and saw the look of astonishment on their faces. I thought I was doing something obvious and easy but realised it was something they'd never be able to do. At that point I realised I was a master of my craft. Until then I considered myself to be pretty average. Even though I get thousands for my work I still think I'm just scratching the surface and feel like I've 'got away with it' every time I get a sale. Its like I'm a fraud... To be a creative person is to be permanently disappointed with the results.

@TheNebulon 2 жыл бұрын

I think you're absolutely right aside from the disappointment part. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part.

@XavierSchwindt 2 ай бұрын

I agree with the disapointment aspect. As a fiction writer and KZfaq content creator I am constantly critiquing myself, all with the negative side of the spectrum. But it is an advantage, driving me forwards to improve.