The World of Creativity: Blog

The Woman Building a Real-Life SimCity. (The Creativity Explorer Ep. 118)

One of the most common techniques for coming up with ideas is the “What if-question”.   I want to introduce you to a more powerful version of it: The “What if-then-question”.   I learned about the power of the “What-if-then-question” from Isabell Koh.   Isabell is a user experience expert at Singapore ETH Center and […]

14

Apr

Creating Visionary Trends. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 117)

Yesterday, I played my first ever game of Padel. I played it with Johan Staël von Holstein, one of the people behind Bliss Padel Club that just opened up a padel center in Singapore and soon will open another big one in Dubai.   I learned something interesting about the Padel trend from Johan.   […]

07

Apr

Exploring the creativity of Europe

Europe is the continent of explorers, the land of enlightenment, and the location where some of the biggest discoveries by mankind were made. ​ A diverse and culturally rich continent –and a continent that for the next 18 months will be my home. ​ Whom should I meet? Whom should I Interview? Where should I […]

04

Apr

The Outsider’s Insights Effect. The story of the Kebab Pizza in Sweden. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 116)

I want to share a story about pizza.   Peter Lo is a Chinese man born in India who moved to Sweden and opened a restaurant.   Learning how Swedes loved pizza and kebab he invented the “curry kebab pizza”. It became a huge success and even got featured in the press as the perfect […]

31

Mar

Create ideas. Not war. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 115)

​Today in Episode 115, we will talk about using creativity to try to stop a war. 1) Create Ideas. Not war. Putin’s war on a peaceful, democratic and independent Ukraine has really affected me personally. Maybe because I have been invited to speak in Ukraine several times and every time I have gone there I […]

24

Mar

The policeman, a boy and creativity. A lesson that inspired me. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 114)

This month’s story is a bit different.   I just want to share a beautiful story I heard. It’s extra beautiful because it’s true.   It’s a story about how a police officer, while on assignment one day in Sweden, in the 1970s, saw a boy crying outside a school. The police officer, his name […]

28

Nov

Island Reflections. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 113)

For the last six months this island has been my home. (Sitting on a private island in the archipelago of Stockholm in summer is, arguably, the best way to rid out the end of a pandemic.)   My strongest insights was:Isolating ourselves in paradise for a full six months gave me plenty of time and […]

28

Nov

Creativity lessons from how Boxbollen created a global success. (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 112)

Let me start with a statement: Boxbollen is a super fun product, a great gift, a huge success – but most of all an amazing idea!   Jacob and Victor Eriksson, two brothers from Sweden, came up with the idea of putting a foam ball on an elastic string and to connect it to an app that […]

28

Nov

“Take calculated dares.”(The Creativity Explorer. Episode 111)

“Take calculated dares.”   That was the message from the very talented photographer Jesper Anhede whom i recently sat down with for a conversation about creativity. ​ Many talk about “taking calculated risk”, but “calculated dares” is different. It’s about daring to be creative. ​ One example is how Jesper took this picture: hanging off a racing […]

28

Nov

The fourth – and best – way of tackling a crisis. (fight-flight-freeze-or-??…). (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 110)

The fight-flight-or-freeze response is a famous concept for how humans react in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat. I would like to add a fourth alternative – an alternative that I think is generally the best.   Let me explain.   Let’s take the epitome of a crisis: being attacked by a […]

28

Nov

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