Miscellaneous posts on Creativity – Tips, methods, news, history etc.
Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide at the age of 34, and it has left most of us saddened and confused. – Saddened because a young life was cut short by his own hands, because he experienced a darkness that was…
Creativity and Emotions are inseparable and there’s a strong possibility that they may be directly proportional, and yet, we know that an over-abundance of emotions can lead us into darkness. The problem with this whole creativity-emotions nexus is that if…
Creativity is an exotic term that dons different faces from the walls temple of Many-faced God (Reference: Game of Thrones.) Fortunately, the reasons why Creativity dons several faces, is different than it was in the Game of Thrones where the…
The Clue: “Perfectionist” not “Perfect” The term is Perfectionist. It isn’t Perfect. As old as the quest for perfection is – if it had a success rate of even half-a-percent you’d expect hundreds of thousands of “perfects” around. We don’t…
Dear Readers, This spring, I’m happy to announce two mint-fresh workshops for my two favorite audience groups – the writers and the trainers. 1. The Creativity & Instructional Content Development (CICD) Workshop on April 07, 2019 (Sunday.) For the writers (content…
Last week, I received a call from a young woman who was interested in exploring the IDCD (Instructional Design and Content Development) course. During our discussion, she asked me if her lack of creativity would in any manner hamper her…
The battle-lines between creativity and practicality never fade, yet some instructional designers and trainers make the effort to bring creativity into the domain of teaching and training. They use various techniques to make learning more palatable and also more effective.…
According to the Genesis I, God first created the heaven and the earth. The earth was created formless and there was darkness all around, so God said, “Let there be light,” and then there was light. Then God named the…
What is Context-specific Creativity? We are all creative, however, our creativity is contextual. It exists within a specific context and disappears outside it. Thus, The Definition of Context-specific Creativity Context-specific Creativity is the ability to arrive at a solution to…
According to the Webster’s dictionary that sits on my desk, Aleatoric means, “characterized by chance of indeterminate elements.” Aleatoric Creativity: Aleatoric creativity thus, must mean something that’s the complete antithesis of the kind of creativity required for instructional design, which…