World Creativity and Innovation day will be observed on April 21 across the world and the goal is to build capacity for everyone to be open to new ideas and to make new decisions that make the world a better place and make their place in the world better too, in ways that do not cause harm. The day has … Read More
Study: Adults with ADHD are more creative
Adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder may have trouble balancing their checkbook, but are more creative, U.S. researchers say. Holly White of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Priti Shah of the University of Michigan gave 60 college students — half of them with ADHD — a series of tests measuring creativity across 10 domains. The study, published in the … Read More
Meditation can reduce pain: study
Meditation can have pain relieving effects, according a study released in the Journal of Neuroscience Wednesday. For the study, researchers mildly burned 15 men and women in a lab on two separate occasions, before and after the volunteers attended four 20-minute meditation training sessions over the course of four days. During the second round, when the participants were instructed to meditate, … Read More
A road map for harnessing creativity
If you don’t feel particularly innovative, or your organization seems flat-footed and uncreative, blame it on your teachers over the years. That’s the message from Canadian consultants David Weiss and Claude Legrand, who have been tracking innovation in companies and finding it wanting. Your teachers prepared you for a world where analytical intelligence would be dominant. You were taught literacy … Read More