I recently finished a story I’d spent several months obsessing over. When I pitched the piece to my editor, I knew that I’d found a worthy subject, but I couldn’t quite articulate what the story was ...

Many people equate creativity with knowledge but nothing could be further from the truth. According to creativity guru Roger von Oech, “The real key to being creative lies in what you do with your ...

Do you ever try to be creative but despite all your efforts, struggle to access that creative voice in your head? If you're anything like me, you may feel the pressure to immediately snap out of this ...

Go grandmaster Lee Sedol recently announced he was retiring from the game because “there is an entity that can never be defeated”: AI. As readers likely remember, an artificial intelligence known as ...

You might think that creativity requires the antithesis of rules and regulation. Even the thought of being creative conjures up images of disorder. Messy rooms, paint everywhere, scraps of paper with ...

In today’s world, creative thinking is needed more than ever. Not only do many businesses seek creative minds to fill their ranks, but the kinds of complex social problems we face could also use a ...

One of my favorite quotes comes from Mozart: “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” Too often, we try to cram creativity into a box the same way we would a deliverable. In our ...

Whether it’s at work or in our free time, many of us would love to learn how to be creative. Coming up with great ideas and new perspectives is a blast. But “thinking different” is not something we ...

Being creative is a source of happiness for many people. Whether engaging in art, music, writing, cooking, gardening, crafting, or inventing, stretching your creativity muscle is good for you and for ...

If you want to develop your own creative idea for a project, does it help to study how other people have approached the same task? One classic finding, called the conformity effect, shows that looking ...

Before the pandemic started, the debate between open office proponents and haters was as hot as ever, with a new day and a new ‘study’ showing favorable results for rubbing elbows with colleagues. And ...

As Hollywood grapples with the upheaval of current AI tools — from writers striking over machine-generated scripts to VFX artists watching their jobs getting reshaped in real time — Silicon Valley is ...