Imagination—Creativity—Innovation

Imagination—Creativity—Innovation

Imagination, creativity and innovation are different.  Understanding the differences will help your creative process.   Imagination is the source for all ideas.  Creativity is the exploration leading to recognition of utility or value by others, and Innovation is...
Creativity Tests

Creativity Tests

Existing creativity tests don’t predict creative achievement.  H-IQ engages you with your imagination to lead to creative achievement.   How can you test for creativity? It’s a contradiction in terms: a test implies correct and incorrect answers; creativity seeks...
Eureka

Eureka

Better than sex?  Imagination can trigger the brain’s reward network creating a deep sense of pleasure and purpose.   “It’s better than sex…Don’t tell my wife I said that.” The scientist who confessed that to me was describing how it feels to make a breakthrough,...
Passion

Passion

Find your passion.  So, we are advised.  But, where do you look?  How do you know if you find it?   Find your passion. Everywhere you turn, it seems someone tells you to find your passion.  They say, “You can’t be creative until you find your passion.” Look on a...
Occam’s Razor

Occam’s Razor

The Red Sweeney Stumper or how a country western band taught me the meaning of Occam’s razor.   My first professional music job was with Red Sweeney and his Country Caravan.  I was the caravan, along with Red’s wife and a drummer.  I added rhythm guitar and we...