Tag: reframing

Sometimes there’s nothing more scary than a blank page. The act of creating – an idea, a thing, a solution – is tough enough, but made worse when we also

Waaaaaay back in 2006 when I started the first iteration of this website, I opened with a question about comparing the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the wire coat hanger. That

Being creative isn’t always about what’s right in front of you. More often than not, being creative means learning to harness both your common sense and your subconscious thinking to work more

Change Your Perspective is Post #1 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here. The Problem: Starting

How you look at the problem determines how you solve the problem. If you can’t solve your problem, change your perspective. In a word, it’s called reframing. A frame is

When trying to solve a problem, often we’re blinded by what we see in front of us. We might know too much about it. It’s so much easier to suggest

I love this question, every time someone asks:  Is creativity an art or is it a science? Let’s put it this way. Creativity would be easier to define and learn