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Poetry vs neuroscience: a creativity smackdown
Just like video killed the radio star, science threatens to kill both the theologian and the poet. It doesn’t have to be that way, but scientists need to acknowledge we do lose something when we gain scientific knowledge.

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.

Perfectionism is death
Perfectionism is stagnation, fear and death. And nothing is a perfect 10 anyway.

The mathematics of joy
Start a list.
Write down 3-5 things that bring you joy.
Over the next week or two, continue to add things until you reach 100.


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.

Elongating time: why creativity needs procrastination and inefficiency
Next time someone asks if you’re bored or procrastinating, tell them you’re elongating time for more creativity.

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.
The amazing, connected brain
The future of creativity is connected to finding out more about the brain and how it makes connections.


Complexity, Alfred North Whitehead, and Obama’s suits
Complexity, creativity, and Obama’s suits

The creativity test that grows creativity
A creativity test for divergent thinking that helps grow divergent creativity the more you take it.