Psychologies

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After 25 years at the forefront of coaching and coach training in the UK I remain  fascinated by the psychology of human experience and behaviour. As pioneers of coaching to the highest standards, our focus is to inspire personal growth and make the

Evening Standard

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Autumn often has the feeling of a fresh start — but after months of lockdown reflection, this year it feels more essential to take stock, reassess and make changes. Having time away from the office to consider our roles and how we do them, learn new

Artists & Illustrators

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When the best thing we can do to help in the fight against Covid-19 is to stay home, you’d think it was the perfect time to escape into making art. In reality things aren’t that simple so accept that your creativity will take a knock as you learn to

3D World

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Jerry Hawthorne, North Carolina What a loaded question! In my opinion the three most important things for any 3D artist to nurture are fundamentals, creativity and originality. Although I have taken on many different roles in the VFX industry, for no

Artists & Illustrators

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Have you ever written an artist’s statement? Doing so may seem an irrelevance if you have no intention of selling or showing work in public, but I hope to persuade you to put pen to paper. Aside from telling the world about your work, writing a state

Her World Singapore

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Creativity is about making serendipitous associations and inspired connections, often to address real-world issues. It helps us stay agile and adaptive to disruptive, sometimes scary, situations that we could never have planned for. It offers the uni

NPR

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What happens when we connect with people whose view of the world is very different from our own? This week on Hidden Brain, we look at the links between diversity, conflict, and creativity.

Future Music

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“I truly believe the quality of the sounds would directly impact your music creativity. Of course there is no comparison between creating sounds with an instrument or using libraries, but if you have to use libraries be extremely selective. There are

VOGUE India

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant” —Horace, Roman poet. Time and again, history has reaffirmed what Horace knew to be true back in 30BC—that from periods of unimaginable unrest

Mollie Makes

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Carving out time for creativity can enhance our emotional wellbeing by reducing stress and anxiety, refreshing our minds and bodies, and problem solving. Our world is full of ideas and possibilities and it is up to us to explore it, discover our pass

AdNews

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For the July/August issue, AdNews has teamed up with AWARD School. We asked students to answer a brief to match our cover story: “When creativity meets diversity”. There were more than 120 ideas submitted nationally. The AWARD School heads blind judg

HELLO magazine

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Being kind doesn’t just benefit others, it can give you a good dose of the happy hormone oxytocin, too. Now HELLO! editor in chief Rosie Nixon has brought together a host of tips on how to improve your wellbeing and embrace positive thinking in her n

The Pastel Journal

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This special issue is primarily a celebration of the hard work, talent and ingenuity of the artists behind the works that make up the 23rd Annual Pastel 100. As a showcase of exceptional pastel painting, the issue supplies oodles of inspiration, but

Good Health

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In real life, creativity and its elusive twin, inspiration, can be a little trickier to coax out of their hiding place. But here are some tried-and-tested techniques for helping you to harness your imagination and get those creative juices pouring fo

Womankind

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Since the 1960s, roughly twenty thousand papers have been written on creativity. And today, online bookstores list over 22,000 books on creativity alone: how to spark it, explain it, guide it, or find it. Creativity, it seems, is a hot topic not leas

Her World Singapore

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Creativity is intelligence having fun,” said Albert Einstein. Coming from one of the biggest brains of our time and someone who was also musical, that statement is more credible than it is ambiguous. When we consider creativity, we immediately draw p

Futurity

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Daydreaming may indicate intelligence and creativity, according to new research. “People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,” says Eric Schumacher, an associate psychology professor from Georgia

Literary Hub

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When I was a teenager, I bought a book—at the Barnes & Noble at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, Washington—called How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. I had eccentric reading habits back then, at least viewed from the vantage point of my current read

Futurity

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There’s an effective way to unlock creative potential, research finds. Employers should incentivize workers to produce an abundance of ideas—even mediocre ones—and then have them step away from the project for an “incubation period.” “Even when you’r

Writer's Digest

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Many of my writing students share a common complaint: They can’t get past writer’s block. When that feeling of futility strikes (it does for everyone), I reassure them that it’s part of the process and there are many remedies for getting unstuck. If

NZ Marketing

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Ten years ago. Rob Limb met with Andy Bell in a cafe to see if their vision for the future of TRACK aligned Happily, they both saw the need for a specialist agency that was dedicated to helping brands grow through genuine customer centricity. Now, te

Woman's Own

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Professor Margareta James is a psychologist and founding director of the Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic in London Anne Henderson is a consultant gynaecologist and BMS accredited menopause specialist at gynae-expert.co.uk Neil Wilkie is a relati

AdNews

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AnalogFolk launched in 2008 when the founders spotted a gap in how brands and businesses were marketing themselves. At that stage few people, let alone agencies, had fully grasped the opportunity of merging digital solutions with the real world. Toda

Womankind

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If our days have become crowded containers for what we did or did not do, perhaps we do not need to pursue more ways to be productive, but rather shake up the contents. I’ve had too many days to count that have been flattened by productivity guilt. T

The Christian Science Monitor

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The coronavirus shock has forced fresh approaches to almost all aspects of life. Why not celebrate it – and keep innovating?

AdNews

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When we think of creativity in media agencies, some may jump to thoughts of creative flighting, trading and targeting. Yes, while this is true, creativity plays a much bigger role. Improved tech capabilities, access to data and more diverse talent po

Domus

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Exploring the forms, structures and surfaces of nature, this furniture project mixes art with design to test the therapeutic effects of contact with uncontaminated settings Design by Nature nasce studiando gli effetti terapeutici che il tempo trasco

The Ideal Home and Garden

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Monita Patel and associates is all about... Facilitating the expression of creativity, and more so my own self, my whole and soul. Design for you is... For me, An aesthetic blend of both, traditional and modern styles. Through my designs... I aim to

Sunday Independent

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Gauteng’s 2212 public schools will be in full swing next week and while teacher unions have agreed to the opening date of February 15, unions say the Department of Basic Education has not provided enough psychological support to educators. ■

Her World Singapore

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When I founded my second business Yi Lian Ng Floral Atelier in 2013 after spending a decade in publishing as a magazine journalist, I constantly dealt with self-doubt, such as not believing that a creative like me could establish a profitable company