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Don’t wait for inspiration
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Martin in't Veld
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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
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Creative thinking is a skill, it’s not just an amount of individual talent – it’s not sitting by the river playing baroque music and hoping you get inspired.
” ~Edward de Bono
Recent Articles
- Design Thinking Made Visible Project
- Random Rules for Ideas
- The Box: Why Brainstorms Fail
- The value of your Idea is in its Context
- Say it with Kinetic Typography
Recent Videos
- Creativity & 10 tips for better brainstorming
- The Benefits of Failure & Importance of Imag…
- Creativity is Art, is it?
- Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain
- Tim Brown urges designers to ‘Think Big’
Recent Books
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win…
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Sel…
- Juicing the Orange: How to Turn Creativity into …
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule t…
- Out of our minds: Learning to be creative
Recent Links
Recent Comments
- Mahatapa commented on:
The ultimate economic resource:"Where is the quote "human creativity is the ultimate economic resource" from?..."
- Rick van der Wal commented on:
Random Rules for Ideas:"Certainly true, though not always easy to make the distinction even when you are ware of your o..."
- Raymond commented on:
Random Rules for Ideas:"Nice post. I was not aware of Seth's blog. I have added it to my rss feed. One of the rules tha..."
- Peter Jones commented on:
The Box: Why Brainstorms Fail:"Great! As Arne said "I'll be back!" I really like your posts - right up my street. Can we pleas..."
- Tammy commented on:
The Box: Why Brainstorms Fail:"Interesting that the buzz words for creativity, "out of the box" hamper creativity! We met annu..."
Ideas in progress:
Battle of Concepts for Heineken 3.0
Concept contest to build a Heineken 3.0 website, building their brand in the 'party scene'.
The Little Book of Brainstorming
Small booklet that will be a recource for managing, facilitating and participating in a Brainstorm.
Imaginarium
A forum/social part of the website used for idea notations, development and discussion.
Creativity lecture and workshop
My second creativity, inspiration and ideation lecture and workshop for the School of Applied sciences in Rotterdam
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