creative process or what inspires creativity?

In a humbling moment for our species, the following big news has just been published: When it comes to the frontal lobes, we're not so special after all.

An interesting 70 year old book is gaining popularity again in the creativity and innovation fields

There's little doubt that trauma can be immensely painful, often leaving deep emotional and psychological scars long after the stressful experience has passed. But can there be a silver lining for creativity?

Learning the craft of art or the craft of branding is not about manipulation. And it’s not about you. Creativity strategist Jeffrey Davis wonders.

Let your creativity flow by giving yourself permission to try things out and believe you can succeed as others can.

Here at The Artist's Road we promote creative thinking and doing at any age. Dr. Francine Toder has written a book based both on scientific research and individual case studies that not only suppor...

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.

An inter…

I ended up applying my passion in creativity to the psychological realm, where I would like to think I have had a larger impact than if I were still working on my stories and plays.

Twyla Tharp on the ideal condition for creativity - This from Twyla’s book The Creative Habit.

Monday’s post on getting the most from your creativity daily mentioned the idea of creative fakes and compiling your own creative fake book. When I wrote this, I was thinking about how musicians us...

This World Creativity and Innovation Week, I've been thinking about the people I most cherish for their creative help, advice, and prodding over the years. They are a diverse and eclectic group! 21...

Whenever you're deeply involved with a problem, take a thought walk. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Sigmund Freud all took thought walks.

World Creativity and Innovation Week starts today (as it does every April 15th) in honor of Leonardo da Vinci's birthday.  We’ll join in with the World Creativity and Innovation Week theme this wee...

This chart lists 29 ways to keep your creative juices flowing during your workday. They are simple, no hassle adjustments you can make to invite creativity.

' (...) evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing schoolwork, their learning is far spottier and shallower than if the work had their full attention.'...

His story is simultaneously inspiring and horrifying. After ten years in the rat-race of London, James Rhodes returned to his true passion, the piano. He dedicated himself to achieving the mastery ...

Anger is a good thing... when we know how to be the master, and not the servant, of this powerful energy. How can we have mastery over our anger so that we

I savor the comments readers leave on this blog. But often they are apologetic in tone, along the lines of "I'm not really a writer," or "I aspire to be a writer." In the technical sense of the wor...

Looking for new ideas? There’s only so much inspiration to be had from those four walls you’ve been staring at. What your brain needs now is new sights, sounds, smells and tastes.

Remembering Richie Havens - Insights from an iconic performer and master of spontaneous creativity.

Conscientiousness is inefficient and subject to dullness without creativity, and creativity does its best work when it functions intuitively.

Creative teaching has no boundaries. It is a wide open highway to all the domains in the world and the possibilities are endless.

Combining what you love into creative work Jessica Pettway is a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and she’s done something simple yet . While studying photography in her pursuit...