Resource Library
(i) Start Here!
(ii) Creativity
(iii) Creative Thinking and Innovation
(v) Procrastination vs. Marination
(iv) Neuroscience and Psychology
The ‘Third Layer’ process itself
The Creative Foundation and Creativity Pyramid
Calming the Nervous System through Creativity
… meditation and breathing are like staring the parasympathetic nervous system straight in the eyes and daring it: ‘Calm, dammit! Right now! Now now now!’ While creativity is more like dropping a hankie in its general direction coquettishly: ‘I’m just gonna be doodling or playing air guitar over here, if you don’t mind and … Sure, I’d love to go on a date together!’
Replace Aha! moments with ‘keychain’ moments
‘Ooh!’ said her brain with a fun little wiggle that ran from her heart to her soul to a pen. ‘I should add this keychain to my list!’
Gravity problems vs tangible and intangible issues
When it comes to our creativity, what’s a gravity problem, what’s a tangible barrier, and what’s an intangible block?
Creative avoidance
Creative freezing requires awareness, kindness and gentle acknowledgement. Creative avoidance requires a swift kick in the pants. How do you know which one you’re doing?
Creative freezing (aka writer’s block, creativity black hole, etc)
Think of your stagnating creativity as the frozen pizza inside your brain’s freezer. And then the hot oven is your own self-awareness.
Mathematical idioms, unspoken quantification and creativity
We quantify the creatively unquantifiable all the time without realizing it. A list of how we use language to put ourselves on the map.
Ode to anger
… anger is further north of the more passive negative emotions for lots of us — sadness, hopelessness, despair, depression. If we’re angry, our brains are active.
Interoception’s influence on creativity, Pt II
Perhaps our internal self-awareness is more important to creativity than we realized.
Be willing to get squiggly
Creativity is messy, inelegant, tangential. But it’s precisely within this messiness where our creativity starts to take shape.
Want to be creative? Lay down.
When I want to write, think or be creative, I know I have to do one thing: lay down. And it’s proven: laying down on your side boosts internal awareness and perception.
The amazing, connected brain
The future of creativity is connected to finding out more about the brain and how it makes connections.
