Comments on: Novelty Makes Brains Creative

By: pierreyann.org » links for 2008-09-27

pierreyann.org » links for 2008-09-27 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:03:16 +0000

[...] Novelty Makes Brains Creative | PSFK – Trends, Ideas & Inspiration Nothing groundbreaking but still.. Discoveries by neuroscientists studying the brain say that novel experiences are key in increasing brain power and creativity. When the brain experiences, or imagines a familiar situation, it already has a shortcut to understanding – it’s got that categorized in a neat little mental box. Novelty, new experiences and stretches of the imagination keep the mind limber, and more creative. (tags: psychology creative inspiration) [...]

By: tim boucher

tim boucher — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:52:09 +0000

Dig this:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people5/Dreyfus/dreyfus-con5.html

“When you’re skillfully coping in flow, without thinking, without rules, your body and its skills are drawing you to get this optimal grip on the situation. And the situation is always completely concrete. It’s something that you’ve never been in before and the other people haven’t been in before and you’ll never be in it again because having been in it this time has changed you.

Aristotle already saw that. It was lost, sort of, until Heidegger found it in Aristotle. Aristotle says if you keep acting and getting experiences and making mistakes and learning, you will finally become phronemos, a person of practical wisdom, and that means you’ll do the appropriate thing at the appropriate time in the appropriate way, to talk like Aristotle. And that’s being a master. That’s the highest thing you can be.”

By: pierreyann.org » links for 2008-09-26

pierreyann.org » links for 2008-09-26 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:31:46 +0000

By: Garrett

Garrett — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:47:41 +0000

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/129/rewiring-the-creative-mind.html

is the link to the article.

By: Hats off for fresh notions « Get Shouty

Hats off for fresh notions « Get Shouty — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:01:56 +0000

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By: tim boucher

tim boucher — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:50:20 +0000

Great to see that corporate America is catching on to this sort of subject-matter! I started discovering exactly this same thing last year while doing exercises to increase my dexterity and hand-eye coordination. Through a combination of left-handed writing (I’m right-handed), juggling, pen-twirling and baoding balls, I started to see how you could open up, break down and re-imprint old habits into newer more effective habits, consciously chosen. I’m excited to see these concepts being applied in creative ways by other people!