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100 More Things #161: NOISE AND MUSIC INCREASE CREATIVITY
A lot of my work involves activities for which I need a very quiet environment, but when I’m writing, I’m more creative and more productive when I have some amount of visual and/or auditory stimulation. For example, I found that when writing this book I…
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100 More Things #160: SLEEPING ENCOURAGES CREATIVITY
You’ve learned about the positive effect that daydreaming has on creativity. The same is true for sleep, but it works on the brain in a different way than daydreaming. Boost Your Creativity By At Least 33 Percent If I told you that there’s a way…
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100 More Things #159: DAYDREAMING ENCOURAGES CREATIVITY
Now that you know about the three brain networks that are involved in the creative process, there’s some related research to be aware of. Some of this research focuses on daydreaming. Daydreaming refers to the thoughts and images people have when their attention turns inward—when…
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100 More Things #158: INDUCE AN AHA MOMENT
We’ve all had the experience: you’re trying to solve a problem or come up with a new idea. You’ve been sitting at your desk, or discussing it in meetings, but you haven’t come up with a solution or the right idea. Then you step away—go…
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Our Top 5 Most Popular Posts
We are always interested in which of our blog posts are the most read. Below is a list of the top 5 from reviewing our analytics of the blog. I thought the post about all capital letters and whether they are inherently harder to read…
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100 More Things #157: TO BE CREATIVE, ENGAGE THE BRAIN’S DEFAULT NETWORK
You’re at work, it’s after lunch, and you realize you’re sitting at your desk, staring into space, and not thinking about anything in particular. Your brain is, relatively speaking, at rest. Your mind is wandering. What would your brain activity show at this moment?The default…
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5 Things to keep in mind when designing for humans
These are not the only things to think about when designing, but these 5 are some of the most important principles: Remember: the more you know about people the better you design.
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100 More Things #156: CREATIVITY STARTS WITH THE EXECUTIVE ATTENTION NETWORK
You may associate creativity with being loose and free. You may imagine a painter having no plan and throwing paint at a canvas to see what happens. You may imagine a composer sitting at a piano and letting his hands wander up and down the…
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100 More Things #155: EVERYONE CAN BE CREATIVE
Creativity isn’t a trait that some people have and others don’t. Before I explain why that’s true, let me first define what I mean by creativity. If 100 people looked at the same abstract painting by Jackson Pollock, many of them might say, “Oh, that…
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100 More Things #154: PEOPLE CAN FEEL EMPATHY FOR MACHINES
People’s interactions with machines are moving beyond anthropomorphism and trust. People are now encountering situations in which they’re developing social relationships with machines and robots. Kate Darling is a research specialist at the MIT Media Lab. She conducts research with a dinosaur toy called Pleo…