Category: Creativity

PRETOTYPING IS THE CHEAPEST WAY TO FAIL

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Pretotyping (coined by Alberto Savoia at Google) is the art of faking it, before you make it, by building the cheapest and fastest version of your idea to test real demand, not technical feasibility. While prototyping asks “Can we build it?”, pretotyping asks the far more important question: “Should we build it?”. Because 99% of failures [...]

CARD MEMORY TRAINER

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I made this web app to help myself master memory techniques used by participants in the World Memory Championships, where they quickly (in less than 13 seconds) browse through a randomly shuffled deck of cards, memorize and recall the cards in chronological order. You might not believe it, but every normal person can learn this, [...]

DOUBLE DIAMOND

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Too often we tend to rush into convergent thinking (solution mode), when challenged. Convergent thinking, is about reducing (narrowing in) the option space, identify the best options and take a decision. Divergent thinking, is about exploring (opening up) for all kinds of options, in a committed and nonjudgmental atmosphere, focusing more on: QUANTITY over QUALITY [...]

IGNITE YOUR POTENTIAL

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To unleash your full potential you need to understand how you function as a human. Explore biologically, psychologically and spiritually, identify your desires, build faith and get your unconsciousness to help you realize your dreams and aspirations. Find out who you really are from a human perspective. HUMAN BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY HUMAN PHILOSOPHY TREE [...]

REMOTE ASSOCIATES TEST (RAT)

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Creative potetial, can be defined by the ability to generate lots of useful remote associations in your mind, which spans across ones knowledge domains. The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a test of creative potential. It was developed by Martha Mednick in 1962 and has since been considered as a valid measure of creativity. According [...]

FACILITATING CREATIVE HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS

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Ever tried an evidence-based experiment to increase team creativity? Years ago I was lucky, when I got the opportunity to arrange and participate in an evidence-based scientific creativity experiment, for a large danish company, led by Balder and Morten, from Copenhagen Institute Of NeuroCreativity (CINC). I've created a visual guide presenting the concepts and activities we learned, tools [...]