Category: Creativity

Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Csikszentmihalyi · Nakamura & Csikszentmihalyi · Bartholomeyczik et al. · Barnett & Vasiu · Beaty et al. There are moments at work that almost everyone recognizes but few can name: when a task completely absorbs your attention, when time seems to accelerate or disappear, when ideas arrive with […]

Reading time: 18 minutes · Key authors: Guilford · Runco & Jaeger · Amabile · Csikszentmihalyi · Rhodes · Wallas · Sternberg & Lubart · Kaufman & Beghetto Few words are used as frequently and with as little agreement about their meaning as creativity. In a single meeting you might hear that the new product […]

Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Guilford · Torrance · Alabbasi et al. · Karunarathne & Calma · Xu & Tognolini · Jönsson & Panadero There is a problem that almost every university educator who has tried to work with creativity in the classroom has encountered at some point: assessment time arrives, and the […]

Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Guilford · Runco & Acar · Xia et al. · de Vink et al. · Quinn, Rawlings & Roome There is a question that any educator who wants to teach creativity will inevitably face: how do I explain to my students what creative thinking is without it sounding […]

Reading time: 15 minutes · Key authors: Treffinger & Isaksen · Mumford & Reiter-Palmon · Oppert et al. · Scott, Leritz & Mumford Almost every problem-solving method taught in schools, universities, and companies shares one assumption: that the problem is already correctly defined. That the thinker’s job is to find the right answer to a […]