Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word (An Interview with Stephen Hawking), by Claudia Dreifus in The New York Times, Science Times
There’s so much to like in this interview of Stephen Hawking published yesterday (9 May 2011) in the Science Times. This one in particular captured my attention: “We can guess at what this will reveal, but our experience has been that when we open up a new range of observations, we often find what we had not expected. That is when physics becomes really exciting, because we are learning something new about the universe.” Hawking was answering a question about the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, but there’s relevant to creativity too: that ideas – the ones which change how we think and behave – are ones which come from allowing ourselves to be open to new experiences or ideas, looking for the unexpected, perhaps even forcing ourselves into new experiences so we see things from new perspectives.
Six Steps to Achieve Creativity in Business and Personal Life, by Deborah Kotz in U.S. News and World Report
Speaking of science, here’s an article from January 2011 about the six helpful steps to unleash your creative inspiration. The article reinforces Hawking’s point above in Step #1: Absorb – the idea of being sensitive to the experiences around you. There’s also some good links to other creativity articles in the same publication.
Creativity Can Lessen Leader Image, by Karen Hopkin in Scientific American
I get the central point of the research – and agree with it to some extent – but it’s also interesting how it plays against the recent IBM CEO global study noting that chief executives rank creativity higher than other leadership competencies. At the same time, I can also understand why people with high leadership qualities and high creativity usually become entrepreneurs.
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