Was just reading a Science book review entitled 'Facilitating "A-ha!" moments'. The book is about how to expand creativity, apparently loaded with anecdotes and 'tricks' to facilitate it. Interesting example includes the fact that building planners locate bathrooms in places that force people that are not used to meet to come together to the same place. Apparently, this has been shown to increase a company's creativity. I have been told that this kind of planning to force people to meet is increasingly taken into account into scientific buildings eg at the Janelia Farm campus, VA. More importantly, there is apparently a call to change our education system in order to promote creativity in children. The book is apparently great fun. It is still not clear if reading it would improve your creativity, but it can certainly not hurt. I was not convince if I should buy it or not, but the call to change education to promote creativity got me. I will buy it and tell you more about it soon.
Got it, very nice book. Had trouble to put it down. Lots of interesting stuff, some you know, some you guessed and some you never thought about. By example there is an important distinction between insights and sustained focused attention during long period of intensive work. Coffee and other drugs might help with the later, but not with the former.
Got it, very nice book. Had trouble to put it down. Lots of interesting stuff, some you know, some you guessed and some you never thought about. By example there is an important distinction between insights and sustained focused attention during long period of intensive work. Coffee and other drugs might help with the later, but not with the former.
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