The Curated Creativity Posts Series
To help explore the themes explored in the Creative Advantage book series, these blog posts are curated into daily life themes. They cover what you can action today including practical tools in your pursuit of enhancing your creativity and problem solving skills.
Getting into the Flow
Many of us would have come across the term 'flow', originally formulated from research that looked at
answering the question ‘what makes us happy in everyday life?’. The conclusion reached was we need to be completely immersed in an activity to experience a flow state.The Benefits of Boredom
Boredom is associated with negative consequences including poor work performance, stress related health problems, even accidents from not being able to sustain attention. But we also know that undertaking boring activities can put us into state of daydreaming and act as a prompt for creativity.
The Role of Natural Settings in Creativity
Measurements of stress hormones, respiration, heart rate and sweating, all suggest that short doses of nature can calm people down and sharpen their performance. It also suggests that the relaxation and ease we feel in nature supports our parasympathetic system, the ‘rest and digest’ nervous system.
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Can we avoid cognitive decline as we age? Maybe we should ask what can we gain with age. By exploring the positives links to cognitive and mental health as we move into older age we can also see how we can increaseour ability to maintain our creative approaches.
To Sleep Perchance To DreamLet's explore how a good sleep routine adds to is our emotional, physical and cognitive health and how this can enhance your creativity and problem solving.
Building Creative Practice Through Routine
How to establish creative routines to build your creative muscle, this theme focuses on embedding creativity into your standard daily schedule to naturally boost cognitive flexibility through actively engaging in habit formation.
