How Switching Tasks Maximizes Creative Thinking

Remember when somebody told you to “sleep on it” when the next step in your great idea wouldn’t come? And you did and it worked? Well, you aren’t alone:

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by Christian Jarrett read article

How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Now who can resist learning more about something like that? Certainly not us, so we’ve stolen reprinted the article and are presenting it right here:

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by Maria Pop0va read article

Essential Conditions for Writing Success

Our essential condition for writing success is a workable definition of “success.” But Charlotte Rains Dixon is more pragmatic:

writing_stuffby Charlotte Rains Dixon (Wordstrumpet.com)

What, exactly, are the essential conditions for writing success, you ask? read article

The power of naive questions…

And now a few words on innocence and creativity and how they go together like…um, we’ll get back to you on that, okay?

But for now:

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Three Quick and Easy Ways to Quiet Your Mind

Because if your mind’s too noisy…it might bug those around you.

Or, to put it another, truer way:

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