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- If You Always Think the Way You’ve Always Thought, You Will Always Get What You Always Got December 7, 2019
- Mind Popping November 21, 2019
- Mind Popping November 21, 2019
- The Value of Focusing on Universals Instead of Particulars November 14, 2019
- HOW EDUCATION INHIBITS OUR NATURAL CREATIVITY October 18, 2019
- Habits of Creative Geniuses October 5, 2019
- THE WORLD IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE, IT IS GREY July 2, 2019
- The Paradox of Expertise May 4, 2019
- Learn How to Expand Your Imagination to Produce Novel and Original Ideas March 16, 2019
- ARE YOU A REPRODUCTIVE OR A PRODUCTIVE THINKER? January 17, 2019
- (no title) January 14, 2019
- HOW TO UNSTRUCTURE YOUR IMAGINATION December 15, 2018
- THE IMPORTANCE OF PERCEPTION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION SKILLS IN CREATIVE THINKING November 18, 2018
- How the Creative Mind Works November 5, 2018
- Can You Think Out Of The Box? October 16, 2018
- Memory Test: Are Your Memories Real or False? October 4, 2018
- Singing Cabs September 18, 2018
- WAKE UP YOUR IMAGINATION August 12, 2018
- ARE YOU CREATIVE? June 21, 2018
- The Art of the Real Deal June 12, 2018
- State of Mind May 5, 2018
- When To Put An Apple Down April 21, 2018
- Why are some people creative and others not? April 4, 2018
- If You Always Think The Way You’ve Always Thought, You’ll Always Get The Same Old Ideas You Always Got. Learn How to be a Creative Thinker and Get The Ideas You Need March 9, 2018
- Can You Spot The Hidden Tiger? February 27, 2018
- MEMORY TEST: ARE YOUR MEMORIES REAL OR FALSE January 10, 2018
- The Key to Thomas Edison’s Incredible Innovative Creativity: Adaptation December 31, 2017
- HOW YOU CAN USE WORDS TO INFLUENCE YOURSELF AND OTHERS December 24, 2017
- Janusian Thinking November 30, 2017
- Einstein’s Favorite Creative Thinking Technique: Combinatory Play November 3, 2017
- LEONARDO DA VINCI’S CREATIVE THINKING TECHNIQUE October 14, 2017
- The Difference Between the Way Creative Geniuses Think and the Way the Average Person Thinks October 1, 2017
- How To Approach Problems August 30, 2017
- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WAY THE AVERAGE PERSON THINKS AND A CREATIVE GENIUS THINKS June 1, 2017
- The Exquisite Corpse May 11, 2017
- Activate Your Inner Creativity April 11, 2017
- THOMAS EDISON’S CREATIVE THINKING HABIT: ADAPTATION March 23, 2017
- Logic Can Get You From A to B; Imagination Can Get You Anywhere March 14, 2017
- Change the Way You Look At Things and the Things You Look At Change March 9, 2017
- (no title) March 3, 2017
- 15 WAYS TO JUMP-START YOUR CREATIVITY March 3, 2017
- CREATIVE THINKING March 3, 2017
- BRAINWRITING March 3, 2017
- Exercises Archives March 3, 2017
- Interview: BECOME THE SUBJECT AND NOT THE OBJECT OF YOUR LIFE February 11, 2017
- WHAT IS BOTH LIGHT AND DARK? January 30, 2017
- Creative Thinking Habit: Always Look at Problems with Multiple Perspectives January 4, 2017
- How Not To Think December 28, 2016
- YOU BECOME WHO YOU PRETEND TO BE — Imagineer7’s Weblog December 22, 2016
- WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT? November 2, 2016
- Logical Reasoning Excercise October 20, 2016
- What Helen Keller Taught Me about Creative Thinking September 17, 2016
- DO YOU LOOK AT WHAT YOU SEE? August 22, 2016
- HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND August 9, 2016
- YOUR THEORY DETERMINES WHAT YOU OBSERVE August 1, 2016
- THE WORDS YOU USE SHAPE THE WAY YOU THINK July 13, 2016
- WE ARE TAUGHT TO BE COGNITIVELY LAZY June 11, 2016
- When You Are Working On Something an Find Something Interesting, Drop Everything Else and Work On It June 3, 2016
- THE ONE PERSON THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE May 25, 2016
- Strange Eccentricities of Creative Geniuses May 11, 2016
- MIND POPPING May 2, 2016
- HOW TO CREATE A GOOD MOOD April 25, 2016
- CREATIVE WAYS TO ENERGIZE EMPLOYEES TO BRAINSTORM FOR INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE IDEAS April 20, 2016
- To Get A Different Perspective, Turn Your Problem Upside Down March 29, 2016
- What Are Your Favorite 10 Top Words February 24, 2016
- Creative Thinking Technique: Lotus Blossom February 13, 2016
- Letting Go January 28, 2016
- How Do You Know? January 18, 2016
- Michael Jordan’s Most Valuable Lesson About Success January 17, 2016
- Approach Problems on Their Own Terms December 25, 2015
- What I Learned From Charles Darwin about Creative Thinking November 13, 2015
- Think Outside your Caged Imagination November 2, 2015
- St. Ignatius’s Exercise on How to Change Your Perspective Toward Problems October 25, 2015
- Think Like a Dog October 5, 2015
- How Geniuses Think September 28, 2015
- What You Can Learn About Creative Thinking from Vincent Van Gogh and the Wright Brothers September 6, 2015
- Michelangelo’s Mindset September 3, 2015
- When You Need New Ideas Take a Thought Walk August 31, 2015
- How Objective Are Your Observations? August 18, 2015
- Is Your Idea Crazy Enough? August 11, 2015
- THE TWELVE THINGS YOU ARE NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOL ABOUT CREATIVE THINKING August 8, 2015
- Imagineering New Ideas July 17, 2015
- How to Get Original Ideas June 29, 2015
- If You Do Nothing, You Are Nothing June 13, 2015
- Thinking Inclusively June 5, 2015
- What the Emperor Moth Teaches Us May 25, 2015
- CREATIVE THINKERING PREFACE May 11, 2015
- Combine What Exists Into Something That Has Never Existed Before April 18, 2015
- Our Life Is What Our Attitude Makes It April 10, 2015
- Why Do People Who Know More See Less? April 1, 2015
- The Power of Words March 16, 2015
- How can a beehive inspire an idea on how to de-ice power lines during ice storms February 13, 2015
- How Velcro was Invented February 3, 2015
- If You Always Think the Way You’ve Always Thought, You Will Always Get What You’ve Always Got January 9, 2015
- INNOVATION KEYS December 13, 2014
- What Would You Have Done? November 14, 2014
- Why Experts Create Few New Ideas November 7, 2014
- Are Your Memories True or False? October 6, 2014
- How to Reverse Your Perspective to Create New Idea October 6, 2014
- Rearrange the letters in words to discover how words self-define themselves October 6, 2014
- A SURREAL IDEA October 6, 2014
- Let’s Keep Doing What We’ve Always Done October 6, 2014
- ARE YOU COGNITIVELY LAZY? October 6, 2014
- Everything is Good October 6, 2014
- Creative Thinking Technique: Combine Ideas from Different Domains October 6, 2014
- Last Respects October 6, 2014
- How to Get Ideas while Dozing October 6, 2014
- What the CIA Discovered about Smiling October 6, 2014
- A Simple Way to Get Ideas October 6, 2014
- Pay Attention and Discover the Ideas that are Right before Your Eyes October 6, 2014
- From bright ideas to right ideas: capturing the creative spark: thinking in new ways opens the mind to boundless possibilities and creative solutions. August 2, 2014
- Your Words Become Your Thoughts July 9, 2014
- The Difference Between the Way Creative Geniuses Think and the Way the Average Person Thinks June 7, 2014
- 101 Tips on How to Become More Creative May 19, 2014
- Describe Your Life in Six Words April 10, 2014
- In What Ways Might I Formulate a Problem Statement? March 30, 2014
- Creative Thinking Technique: Abstraction February 12, 2014
- How to Get your Subconscious Mind Working on a Problem January 29, 2014
- A Test of Your Creative Thinking Perception Skills January 24, 2014
- Act! December 26, 2013
- WHAT CAN YOU ADAPT FROM SOMETHING ELSE? December 13, 2013
- What Can You Combine with a Christmas Card to Make it into a Novel, Surprising Card? December 11, 2013
- Does God Exist? December 4, 2013
- IDEA QUOTA November 16, 2013
- What Politicians can Learn about Decency from George Washington October 21, 2013
- What You Think About, You Bring About September 18, 2013
- There Is No Such Thing as Failure September 12, 2013
- Do You Think Like a Bee or a Fly? September 6, 2013
- Thomas Edison’s Creative Thinking Habits August 29, 2013
- Idea Triggers August 19, 2013
- 24 SURE-FIRE WAYS TO KILL CREATIVITY IN YOUR EMPLOYEES August 12, 2013
- How the Creative Mind Works August 7, 2013
- Creativity Means Seeing the Same Things You See Every Day with New Eyes July 6, 2013
- America’s Collective Unconsiousness June 28, 2013
- What Is Your Story About Creative Thinking and Innovation? June 20, 2013
- The Creative Thinking Habit Da Vinci, Edison & Walt Whitman Had in Common June 4, 2013
- What Color Best Represents Your Feeling for Creativity? May 24, 2013
- What I learned about Creative Thinking from Leonardo Da Vinci March 21, 2013
- The Most Important Lesson Nobel Laureate Physicist Richard Feynman Learned about Creativity March 13, 2013
- What I have Learned about Creative Thinking from the Wright Brothers March 6, 2013
- What I Learned about Creative Thinking from Walt Disney February 18, 2013
- What I Learned about Creative Thinking from Aristotle February 11, 2013
- What I Learned about Creative Thinking from Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Niels Bohr February 2, 2013
- What I Have Learned about Creative Thinking from Vincent van Gogh January 28, 2013
- What I Learned about Creative Thinking from Michelangelo January 20, 2013
- What I’ve Learned about Creative Thinking from Henri Matisse January 7, 2013
- Your Mind Was Once a Cathedral December 27, 2012
- Einstein’s Gift of Fantasy December 22, 2012
- 10 Odd Facts about Famous Creative Geniuses December 19, 2012
- The Only Thing of Consequence in Life is What You Do December 15, 2012
- You Do Not See Things as They Are; You See Them as You Are December 14, 2012
- If You Can Dream it, You Can Do It November 30, 2012
- THOUGHT WALK November 19, 2012
- How Rational is the Average Consumer? November 12, 2012
- When You Can’t Change Your Circumstances, Change Yourself November 6, 2012
- Cognitive Laziness Inhibits Creative Thinking October 23, 2012
- God’s Bed October 18, 2012
- Do Corporations Really Want New Ideas? October 14, 2012
- 101 Tips on How to Become More Creative October 13, 2012
- What your Favorite Words Reveal about your Personality September 27, 2012
- LEARN HOW TO CREATE IDEAS FROM MOTHER NATURE September 13, 2012
- To be a Creative Thinker, Act like One September 10, 2012
- You Can’t Create Something Out of Nothing September 2, 2012
- Your Words Shape the Way You Think August 27, 2012
- Become a Child Again August 23, 2012
- How to Communicate with Your Subconscious Mind August 18, 2012
- One of the Most Common Questions I Am Asked At My Seminars August 13, 2012
- How Easily False Memories are Created August 8, 2012
- What Color Best Represents Your Attitude? August 6, 2012
- Wierd Habits and Rituals of Famous Historical Figures August 3, 2012
- ACT August 2, 2012
- The Incredible Genius that America Ignored July 14, 2012
- HERE IS MY DAM RESPONSE June 12, 2012
- EINSTEIN’S NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK June 5, 2012
- WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID OF CREATIVITY? May 26, 2012
- HEATING YOUR IMAGINATION May 22, 2012
- How to Get a Mind “Popping” Idea May 20, 2012
- THE ARTIST IS A CHIMPANZEE May 12, 2012
- Scratch a Genius and You Surprise a Child April 21, 2012
- BRAINSTORMING SESSION ICEBREAKERS April 17, 2012
- IS YOUR IDEA CRAZY ENOUGH? April 13, 2012
- MICHELANGELO’S MINDSET April 11, 2012
- Einstein’s Insight About Thinking April 5, 2012
- Why Didn’t You Think of That Idea? March 22, 2012
- HOW LEONARDO DA VINCI GOT HIS IDEAS March 19, 2012
- THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ABOUT CHOCOLATE March 10, 2012
- The Art of Framing Challenges Creatively March 2, 2012
- Perception Constructs Rather than Records Reality February 24, 2012
- A Review of Creative Thinkering from StrategyDriven February 22, 2012
- Your Habits Determine Your Character February 21, 2012
- Cracking Creativity book review February 19, 2012
- Pencils February 16, 2012
- Washington February 11, 2012
- Why the Geese Did Not Fly February 10, 2012
- Why We Believe Our Own Lies February 5, 2012
- Creative Thinkering by Michael Michalko – Book review February 3, 2012
- THINKING METAPHORICALLY February 1, 2012
- How Your Mind Creates Ideas January 29, 2012
- Culture of Helplessness January 18, 2012
- THE IDIOCRACY THEORY January 11, 2012
- DON’T READ THIS January 6, 2012
- Breaking through your creative blocks January 4, 2012
- Think! Think Again!! January 2, 2012
- Ideas Having Sex December 28, 2011
- False Memory Thought Experiment December 22, 2011
- Seven Ways to Wake up your Imagination December 18, 2011
- EINSTEIN’S IMAGINATION December 16, 2011
- LETTING GO December 13, 2011
- The Twelve Things You Are Not Taught in School about Creative Thinking December 11, 2011
- Why We Cannot Perceive the World November 24, 2011
- THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS THAT PREVENT PEOPLE FROM BEING CREATIVE THINKERS October 27, 2011
- http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2011/10/how-to-stop-your-creative-thinking/ October 26, 2011
- It Is Impossible Not to Make Connections October 25, 2011
- Joseph Sale Interviews Michael Michalko, the Author of Creative Thinkering October 4, 2011
- Becoming the Subject of Your Life September 24, 2011
- An Interview with Michael Michalko about Creative Thinkering September 13, 2011
- Stop Thinking About It September 12, 2011
- Change the Way You Look at Things and the Things You Look at Change September 8, 2011
- Walt Disney’s Creative Thinking Technique August 29, 2011
- When You Can’t Change Your Circumstances, Change Yourself August 25, 2011
- You Become What You Pretend To Be August 22, 2011
- Thought Experiment – Mind Reading August 18, 2011
- There Is No Such Thing as Failure August 15, 2011
- What Did Henry Ford Learn From Pigs That Made Him A Billionaire August 8, 2011
- How to Increase a Group’s Ideas 10X in Brainstorming Sessions August 1, 2011
- Thought Walk July 28, 2011
- Leonardo daVinci’s Ideabox July 22, 2011
- The Big Bang of Creativity July 13, 2011
- What is Not Speaking? July 6, 2011
- Who Was This Man? June 30, 2011
- The Exquisite Corpse June 6, 2011
- Creative Ways to Spice Up Your Meetings June 1, 2011
- Getting Published May 24, 2011
- Breaking habits May 6, 2011
- Attribute Analysis April 25, 2011
- Can You Guess? Questions whose answers may intrigue you. April 18, 2011
- Abstraction April 12, 2011
- A Perspective on Creativity April 5, 2011
- Take Off Your Shoes and Think! March 28, 2011
- Is Your Idea Crazy Enough? March 21, 2011
- 24 Ways to Kill Creativity March 14, 2011
- 100 Monkeys March 7, 2011
- Einstein’s Brainstorm Secret February 28, 2011
- Can You Guess? February 21, 2011
- 16 Ways to Jump-start Creativity February 15, 2011
- A Theory About Genius February 9, 2011
Past Articles
- If You Always Think the Way You’ve Always Thought, You Will Always Get What You Always Got
- Mind Popping
- Mind Popping
- The Value of Focusing on Universals Instead of Particulars
- HOW EDUCATION INHIBITS OUR NATURAL CREATIVITY
- Habits of Creative Geniuses
- THE WORLD IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE, IT IS GREY
- The Paradox of Expertise
- Learn How to Expand Your Imagination to Produce Novel and Original Ideas
- ARE YOU A REPRODUCTIVE OR A PRODUCTIVE THINKER?
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