Imagine trying to draw your face with your non-dominant hand. How would it come out? Probably pretty terribly, right? You can’t expect symmetrical eyes or a recognizable nose when you’re going against ...
The other day, I was watching a furniture-making video that was thematically centered around creativity, specifically upon the distinction between creative and uncreative ‘types.’ In the video, the ...
Gina sat down to write her book on the ethnography framework she developed from 20 years of research and teaching … and nothing came to her. She stared at the cursor blinking on the screen and lifted ...
Best-selling author Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was A Neuroscientist and How We Decide) found himself increasingly drawn to the mystery of creativity a few years ago. “We live in a world surrounded by our ...
As a neurodivergent author and neurodiversity-affirming writing coach, I often hear stories from other creative types about struggles with work-life balance and finding time for their creative work.
Studies show that creativity comes from the brain's right hemisphere, which is where the idea that there are "right-brain thinkers" and "left-brain thinkers" comes from. (Those left-brain thinkers ...
Most of us associate creativity with celebrities like Beyonce or Vincent Van Gogh, who achieved enormous success in the creative sector. However, those who do not work or have hobbies in the arts may ...