Blog Profile / Tracking Wonder
| URL : | http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tracking-wonder | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Creativity | |
| Posts on Regator: | 59 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.4 | |
| Archived Since: | April 9, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Why We Have More Courage to Create in the Middle Years
Why are more people in their 40s, 50, and 60s in the early 21st century rising to their creative calling and producing valuable work? The answer might have to do with the very factors that make taking the leap challenging to begin with. read more
Can You Feel the Most Contagious Emotion?
Jonah Berger's dazzling new book Contagious sheds light on how highly shared content evokes especially one emotion. What the book doesn't offer is why we need that emotion and how we can evoke it in our content without being manipulative. read more
Feeling the Most Contagious Emotion When You Create & Market
Jonah Berger's dazzling new book Contagious sheds light on how highly shared content evokes especially one emotion. What the book doesn't offer is why we need that emotion and how we can evoke it in our content without being manipulative. read more
The 48-Hour Sulk Rule & the Creative’s Occupational Hazard
Between bolstering up and ranting, there might be a middle way when responding to criticism: the 48-hour sulk rule. Find out how. read more
The Psychology of Rejection & Criticism with Mark McGuinness
Criticism paralyzes some potentially creative people, but developing resilience in the face of rejection can help people realize their creative aspirations. read more
A Call to Wonder in an Age of Disruption
We’re in an age of disruption. We’re in a state of wonder. No surprise. With quick perspective on our own times of radical change, we also can consider what to do creatively. read more
The Science of Creative Insight & Yoga
Yoga aids creativity? At first pass, that claim might seem a New Age stretch. But correlations between studies in yoga and studies in creativity suggest that the Stings and Russell Simmonses of the world are onto something. read mor...
Science of Creativity Moves into the Body
Five thinkers pave the way to understanding how the body helps us learn and create. Jeffrey Davis introduces these movers and shakers and poses their works' implications. read more
Something Startling This Way Comes
Wonder's roles in crisis can inform today's storytellers and business artists. read more
Wonder with a Thousand Faces Part 1
Wonder has many more faces and varieties than the wide-eyed one. If we want to tell, design, and live out enduring stories that matter - about ourselves, the adult world, the future, or fictional places - we would do well to track wonder in all of its forms. Story strategist and creativity consultant Jeffrey Davis gives a tour. read more
A Job as Creative Quest
To change a mindset incrementally requires a creative cognitive reframe and practical cognitive tools. For some despondent or near-burnt out workers, a quest might be the thing to change their channel. read more
Tracking Wonder & Making More Time to Create
Awe expands time, and busy people can actually gain time by priming their creative mind. read more
The Problem-Solution Paradox of Creativity
To thrive as a creative means you must be an agile problem-solver. Consultant Jeffrey Davis explains how it's necessary to willingly track problems yet not over-focus when solving them. read more
5 Ways to Wander - First Draft Writing Advice
A first draft is a place to explore ideas, images, and premonitions. Later, you can go back to revision, revise, rewrite. Draft to discover. Craft to design. read more
The Art of Wandering for Writers, Part I
The uncertainty of starting a first draft drives some writers crazy. But uncertainty may mean you’re on the right path. Otherwise, you may be writing what you already know and, thus, what your readers already know, too. read more
Best Rest Practices for Optimal Productivity and Creativity
We know taking breaks optimizes work-and-create flow. But what are the best practices? And does your creativity benefit from a full nap or not? read more
Wonder and Delight Are at the Heart of Customer Experience
Wonder gestures are a new way of doing business drawn from an ancient way of making art. To finesse the power of surprise requires more than being gimmicky and manipulative. read more
The Creative Thinking Myth
The right-brained creativity myth isn't the only limited notion of what creativity is, what it requires, and how it happens. Again, let me be audacious enough to mention another one: the creative thinking myth. And you tell me what you think. read more
Myths of Right-Brained Creativity
Let me be audacious enough to try to dispel a big myth of creativity: the right-brain creativity myth. read more
Why Writing Trumps Positive Thinking Alone for Goal-Setting
Is there a science or an art to manifesting our dreams and achieving our goals? Is there something beyond wishful thinking and empty truisms that will up the chances that our wondrous best self will flourish in 2012? Yes. No. Sort of. Not exactly. Apparently. Possibly. read more