Just a beautifully styled presentation by David Burton touching on the five creative behaviors as identified by Gardner, and turning them into 10 practical tips for better brainstorming.
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J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. (via harvardmagazine.com)

Many people believe that creativity is something you either have or you don’t, and if you are amongst the happy few, you’ll use your creativity to create difficult art the general public won’t understand but your creative counterparts will love.

But; creativity is of vital importance to every act you’ll ever do. Art or no art. The usage of your creativity can change every action you’ll ever do from ordinary to extraordinary.

Bestselling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our projects just before we show them to the world. Godin targets our “lizard brain” as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us to “thrash at the beginning” of projects so that we can ship on time and on budget.

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.”

Sir Ken Robinson at Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam talks about his new book ‘The Element’. A book about discovering and applying ‘passion’. The things that drives you, motivates you, and essentially makes you valuable. Sir Ken Robinson applies this in the context of our educational system, developing and educating in talent.

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50 of the world’s most inspiring and iconic figures over the age of 65 share their words of wisdom, covering topics such as creation, risk, progress and change. Wisdom is a multimedia exhibition that features extraordinary large-format portraits and documentary footage of interviews created by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman.

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

Entrepreneur, Twitter star, and former Apple software evangelist Guy Kawasaki highlights 10 keypoints for the creation of meaning, innovation, and revenue at the Cisco Conference. Via the Cisco Blog.