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What is imagination? from Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer

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“It is the Combining faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions in new, original, endless, ever-varying combinations…It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. ” Ada Lovelace (1815-1852). To use your imagination… combine two things that by nature have not yet been connected. What if, for example, …

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Isaac Asimov on Creativity: how do people get new ideas?

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Isaac Asimov Asks: How do people get new ideas? Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992)  was a professor of biochemistry at Boston and a prolific science fiction and popular science author. He writes that among other things, making new combinations, or cross-connections and feeling self-assured are key to new idea making. Read what he wrote for …

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Your Creativity Needed: Ideas for Your 2018 World Creativity & Innovation Day April 21 Celebration

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Greetings all, Today, August 2, is Earth Overshoot Day. Essentially, this is the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. This short video explains what that is and means.  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPO2-KCyFvc] On April 27 this year, the United Nations General Assembly declared World Creativity …

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Graphics created from around the world for #wciw2017 – 16 years later

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World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, (WCID) was born 16 years ago today, May 25, 2001, in Toronto, Canada, in response to a newspaper headline that read, “Canada in Creativity Crisis“. WCID’s vision is for everyone around the world at the same time, uniting in creativeness, enabling people to use their creativity to make the world …

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Planting seeds for WCIW2017; 6 questions and a game

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Some people ask for advice on what to do for their World Creativity and Innovation Week 2017 (April 15-21 every year). “Hm.  I’m not sure.” I often reply. Then I ask questions like these. What might you do? What opportunities present themselves? What pet peeves would you like to solve? What would you like to …

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Creativity is energy – what if…

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What if creativity had nothing to do with thinking at all? What if creativity is an energy that everyone has and uses to generate new ideas, make new decisions and take new actions. What if the energy is blocked, that people do some things that stop it from flowing. Learning skills associated with releasing creativity …

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Seven Misconceptions About Creativity and How to Harness It

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Remember to stay true to your own creative energy, methods, and approach. Forget comments others make about your way to do things, such as You are too original You are too alone You are too distracted You are too focused You are too in love (with your idea) You are too perfect You are too aimless …

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Five lessons Walt Disney and Steve Jobs can teach us about innovation | ZDNet

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There are startling parallels in the lives of Walt Disney and Steve Jobs. Their dedication to product quality and innovation transformed industries. Lessons: Don’t give up Finding the right creative partner can be a force multiplier Betting on new technologies ahead of the curve can be a strong differentiator Perfectionism, if you can survive it, …

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