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The Genius Study: What Determines Creative Success?
Learning from artists, scientists, and Nobel Prize winners.
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Mistakes to Avoid When Buying Office Furniture
Buying office furniture can make all of the difference when it comes to inspiring your workplace with creativity and productivity. So, here's a list of guidelines to help you choose wisely.
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Mos Def helping bring hip hop art gallery to South Bronx
The Compound Gallery was founded by Set Free Richardson, and he's making it happen in partnership with Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def). The first exhibition will feature the iconic work of photographer Jonathan Mannion.
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What We Know About Art and the Mind
There are many studies about how we process tonal music and figurative painting, but philosophers are just beginning to understand how our brains react to more abstract work.
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To succeed as a creator, don’t “roll the dice”—get dealt another hand
The more creative work you produce, the better your chances of making a masterpiece.
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24 Things I’ve Learnt About Creativity
Are you creative? Did you consider yourself a creative kid? I didn’t. I never pursued what I was passionate about, I just wasn’t someone who made things. I aspired to perhaps be a photographer, writer, designer, musician, etc, but never put in the work.
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Burnout is Real: How Content Creators Can Stay Creative When Money is Involved
Content creators are motivated by passion but when the issue of making money gets involved, it leads to their inevitable burnout.
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Hello, Perfection, My Old Friend
Of all the no-win goals available to humans, perfection ranks as the most frustrating, soul-sucking, and impossible.
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A New Way to Become More Open-Minded
Benjamin Franklin knew he was smart — smarter than most of his peers — but he was also intelligent enough to understand that he couldn’t be right about everything. That’s why he said that whenever he was about to make an argument, he would open with something along the lines of, “I could be wrong, but…” Saying this put people at ease and helped them to take disagreements less personally. But it also helped him to psychologically prime himself to be open to new ideas.
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Obsidian devs recreate Star Wars Mos Eisley spaceport in Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4 recreations are nothing new, however the Star Wars Mos Eisley spaceport project—which comes courtesy of a group of Obsidian developers—is pretty impressive. Headed by Jason Lewis, a total of 17 devs of varying rank are using the project to learn more about the engine, but of course being self-confessed “super Star Wars nerds” makes the undertaking that bit easier. Speaking to 80.lv, Lewis says he first started out with the desire to craft a three dimensional Millennium Falcon, however things quickly spiralled as the project grew in scope.
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How to balance full-time work with creative projects
A guide to finding the right day job, protecting your time, and building creative habits by Jeffrey Silverstein. Illustrated by Sunny Eckerle.
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Productivity vs. Creativity, the Content Creator's Catch-22
The sum total of a great creative feat is quantifiable, but the immense effort it requires is done invisibly behind the scenes, sometimes for decades.
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Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist
How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).
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Minds, Machines and Magic
We think creativity is a uniquely mysterious force. But with Google's Magenta producing musical symphonies, some fear AI threatens to make the imagination redundant. Is human creativity no more than mechanics? Will AI transform and enrich the human experience? Can robots be creative? Or is there something strange about creative thought that separates humans and machines?
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Want to Be Original? Break the Rules of Originality.
With so many people in the world, the odds of you coming up with an idea, name, topic or concept that nobody else has touched on before are pretty slim.
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Developing a creative process
When you’re just starting out, it can be hard to know where to begin with a creative undertaking, how to sustain it over time, and how to develop it into something you’re proud of. But as you learn the ropes and become more comfortable with your voice, tools, time, and vision, a creative process may emerge that makes it easier to start, sustain, and finish things. So how does one develop their own unique creative process over time? The interviews and guides below all offer practical wisdom on how to structure your work and practice in ways that can keep things flowing in positive and productive directions.
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5 Exercises To Get The Creative Juices Flowing
Looking for some inspiration? Struggling with the same problem for days? Try these quick, easy and free exercises proven to boost creativity!
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Jesusfreakhideout.com: Planetshakers, "Heaven on Earth" Review
Extended play albums are all the rage as of late. Indeed, more and more often these days, artists and bands are finding the notion of releasing ten or more tracks at the same time all but passé, opting instead to parse out their material in four- to six-song doses. Nobody knows this more than the members of Australia's Planetshakers, whose last eight efforts have been put out in the EP format.
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How Perfectionism Tricks You Into Downplaying Your Own Value
Why you need to stop basing your self-confidence on how much and what you accomplish. Starting today.
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The surprising habits of original thinkers
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."
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