You've heard about child prodigies who play violin concertos or multiply double digit numbers by kindergarten. While musical or mathematical giftedness is (to some extent) something you're born with, their eventual success owed a lot to parents who saw the gift, and nurtured it. Child development experts say that all individuals have some creative genius within them. You … [Read more...] about How to nurture your child’s creative genius
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Have you run out of good ideas?
Whether you're a painter, an advertising copywriter, an inventor, or an entrepreneur, you've probably felt it—a huge, unyielding creative block. You can't find inspiration. You can't think of solutions. Every idea you've come up with has failed, and you don't know what else you can do. You don't feel creative, just tired and totally spent. It happens to the best of us. How … [Read more...] about Have you run out of good ideas?
How to develop the leadership skills of your employees
Your business' greatest resource is its people. But are your employees mere foot soldiers, blindly obeying orders and delivering just the bare minimum so they won't get fired, or are they leaders? Do they aspire to be the best they can be, meet challenges with creativity and resilience, and constantly work to improve themselves, mentor their co-workers, and satisfy the … [Read more...] about How to develop the leadership skills of your employees
Creative Ways of Recycling Crayons
If you have children in the house then you probably have a lot of broken crayons lying all over the house. They're in your kids' toy chests, their desks, in their bags. There may even be a lot of crayons hidden in the nooks and crannies of the house. The most common reaction when you see broken crayons that you think are unusable is to throw them away. But before you do that, … [Read more...] about Creative Ways of Recycling Crayons
Tips on Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a type of visualization tool whose main purpose is to help structure information. By graphically representing ideas and concepts a person will have a better time in analyzing and comprehending ideas, which allows them to have an easier time synthesizing and recalling these ideas and even give them more ideas. Mind mapping is a very powerful tool. There are … [Read more...] about Tips on Mind Mapping