The World of Creativity: Blog

A Rallying Call For Creativity (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 138)

A rallying call for creativity.   The old slogan of “reuse, reduce, recycle” is great. It reminds us, in an easy-to-remember way, about the need to live in a sustainable way.   But if we are really going to solve the climate challenge and create a world that is truly sustainable we need to think […]

21

Oct

Creativity is Everywhere (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 137)

What can we learn about creativity from an archaeologist?   Yesterday I spoke on creativity for The Historical Museums of Sweden, an organisation that consists of a number of historical museums and of the archaeologist of Sweden.   As part of my research, I interviewed an archaeologist about why creativity is important in their job. […]

14

Oct

Ideas Island in a Commercial (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 136)

As you know Ideas Island has gone 100% solar. The provider of our solar-system, Victron Energy, fell in love with the island (and my other island) and made a video about it.   Check out some stunning footage of Ideas Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-z-iY1jZNo   It’s also a great video about the Energy Transformation that is happening […]

05

Oct

Pronuncification – The Moment When We Truly Decide to Actually Make an Idea Happen (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 135)

To procrastinate – to “put forward to tomorrow” – is one of the big killers of creativity.   Imagine all the ideas you would get done if you just got around to making them happen the moment you have the idea.   But that’s not going to happen, is it?   Instead of put plans […]

21

Sep

Idearise (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 134)

Every sunrise is a celebration of creativity, because every morning the sun rises and every morning it paints a new painting on the sky.   I got this story from Amar Ramesh, a famous wedding photographer from Chennai in India.    Most mornings he goes down to the sea to watch the sun come up […]

15

Sep

Explore and Search. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 133)

Who do you need to learn from?     In the last 100 days, I have done more than 50 (!) one-hour one-on-one interviews with leading innovators around the world.   From Nicholas McQuire, Director, Strategic Missions and Technologies at Microsoft, Microsoft, (UK)   to Rafael de Jesus, Head of Innovation Teams Partnership & Development […]

08

Sep

A Lesson in Creative Thinking From on Top of a Buoy. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 132)

Don’t you just love it when you get to experience how your brain looks at something familiar and decides to look at it in a new way?   For 23 years I have been driving by a buoy next to my island where I live. I must have driven by it thousands of times.   […]

01

Sep

“Pausebrate” (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 131)

It’s easy for creative people to run from one creative project to another. As soon as one creative project is done, we rush to the next one. (Often we rush to the next one even before the previous project is done…). In this post, I want to encourage you to stop and celebrate our latest […]

26

Aug

Using Creativity to Turn a Leaking Boat Into a Garden (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 130)

Reuse, reduce, and recycle is not just a rallying call for sustainability – it is also a rallying call for creativity.  My mother loves (!) to garden and luckily for me, she loves to come and garden on our island. But at 77 years old it’s slowly getting harder for her to bend to the […]

17

Aug

The Frustrating Art of Changing Ones Mind. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 129)

For the last two weeks, I have been swearing at myself once a day.   You see, two weeks ago I moved the hook to close our shower room door from a high position on the door to a low position (to make it easier for our children to close the shower room.)   The […]

12

Aug

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