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How to Inspire Creativity in Others

By Nicole Leatherman — 2019

Sometimes all someone needs is a little creative inspiration to get the creative juices flowing. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give a person because it means you’ve helped them perceive the world in new ways, make connections between seemingly unrelated things, find hidden patterns, and produce creative solutions—whether on a canvas, within a spreadsheet, inside a cluttered kitchen pantry, writing, and beyond.

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How to Enter the ‘Flow State’ for Effortless Creativity

Taking a modern look at a millennia-old concept. We experience the "flow state" when a given task becomes effortless and time slips by without our noticing. The concept has appeared in many ancient philosophies like Stoicism and Taoism, and modern research has confirmed this experience is real.

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The ‘Flow State’: Where Creative Work Thrives

Many of us know what it’s like to be in a state of creative flow. Do you have to wait for inspiration to strike, or can you hack ‘the zone’?

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The Flow (the Zone)— For Writers? What Is It? How Do I Get Into It?

The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.

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How Googlers Avoid Burnout (and Secretly Boost Creativity)

You have to “turn it off” to “turn it on” when it matters most.

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Opinion: What Navy SEAL Team 6 Can Teach Us about How to Succeed at Work

SEALs go against most default approaches to leadership, training and execution to excel under adversity.

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Michael Phelps: ‘I Can’t See Any More Suicides’

In the documentary “The Weight of Gold,” Phelps presents a stark picture of the mental wear and tear Olympians endure.

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Why Being Creative Is Good for You

What is the key to creativity, and how does it help our mental health? Beverley D’Silva speaks to Artist’s Way author Julia Cameron and others about ‘flow,’ fear and curiosity.

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