You might remember my earlier musings about the impact different sporting activities have on the way I think creatively. Well… the other night, I had dinner with my godmother. She is, by the way, also a child psychologist! I told her about how swimming puts me into Stimulator mode resulting in me coming up with [...]
They say we have our best ideas in the shower. Although it’s a bit of a myth, the truth in this phrase is the fact that when we let our conscious mind drift, the subconscious mind has space to step out of the shadow. And it is in the field where the conscious and subconscious [...]
I read an article the other day in Applied Cognitive Psychology stating that brainstorming makes you less creative. The argument was that instead of resulting in a raft of brilliant and diverse new ideas, throwing around random thoughts together in a room led to fewer and less creative solutions. Nicholas Kohn, a psychologist and researcher [...]