creativity
Teaching your child metacognitive techniques can improve their learning and life skills.
Big Think’s co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.
Watch The Daily Show comedian Jordan Klepper and elite improviser Bob Kulhan live.
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Human brains evolved for creativity. We just have to learn how to access it.
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If you’re interested in reinvention and adaptability, turns out Italian cooking is an instruction manual for life.
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It takes a special person with a special set of skills to reach students on an emotional level.
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To get a sense of faraway places, these ‘atlases’ let the locals give you their perspective.
The institutional barriers that have often held creative teaching back are being knocked down by the coronavirus era.
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A fun and completely safe experiment for the family to try during quarantine.
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A larger vocabulary can be a confidence booster for children and make adults better communicators.
Most people don’t know what they’re passionate about.
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We wouldn’t want to live without it, so how can we create art that’s durable?
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Flow Research Collective COO Rian Doris explains how to harness the power of your nervous system to find your flow during a pandemic.
It’s normal if you’re not productive in your creativity all the time. Even the greats took breaks.
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A study finds that while musical newbies exercise the brain’s so-called creative hemisphere, pros have moved on.
Our live stream with Harvard literature professor Lisa New begins at 1 pm ET today.
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Research shows how “aha moments” affect the brain and cause the evolution of creativity.
Why finding joy is more easily attainable than the pursuit of happiness.
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Music, journaling, and spending time with your pets are all science-backed ways to boost mental health during stressful times.
A clean work space, plants, and putting on the right pants all make working from home easier, according to science.
While we might not love the idea of deadlines, they can be cause for some of our greatest creative work.
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Nostalgia is also proven to decrease loneliness and increase resiliency.
The rules have changed, and so have we.
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The standard face-to-face team is inefficient for employees and employers alike.
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In such states of creative divergent thinking, the body is aroused and the pupils become dilated.
The Buddha wasn’t concerned with transcendence, but rather fully embodying the moment.
Play and experimentation are the keys to creativity and innovation.
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The goal should be satisfaction, not perfection—why good enough is good enough.
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Studies have shown that dominant sexual activity can often boost your work ethic several days after a sexual experience.