Where Good Ideas Come From [video]
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Can the way people we deem geniuses help us better understand how to think? That’s the central question here in this story from the CreativityPost. Here’s the high level tips with some of our thoughts mixed in:

So you’ve had a great new idea for making something better, and you’ve figured out how to make it real.It could be a new thing, a new method, anything.But no one is picking up on your idea.
What’s wrong?
Often, people in this situation think that the problem is that others just don’t understand their great …

Creative thinking is work. You must have passion and the determination to immerse yourself in the process of creating new and different ideas. Then you must have patience to persevere against all adversity. All creative geniuses work passionately hard and produce incredible numbers of ideas, most of which are bad. In fact, more bad …

The legendary writer and …

More good advice on being creative. Most entrepreneurs and business owners I know are creative and this article sheds a little light on why having multiple interests is good for your mind.
This is a good quote… Creativity in any form is healthy, as study after study has shown. Designing magazines and drawing on every surface imaginable …

SCAMPER is a checklist of nine creative-thinking principles based on the notion that everything new is some addition or modification of something that already exists. You take a subject and change it into something else. (E.g., drilled petroleum becomes chemical feedstock becomes synthetic rubber becomes automobile tires. Natural gas becomes polyethylene becomes milk jugs. …