A former Facebook executive is making waves after he spoke out about his “tremendous guilt” over growing the social network, which he feels has eroded “the core foundations of how …
Meaning is Healthier than Happiness
For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money, Happy-People-Pills For All, …
Your Likes are exposing you
How well do you think your Facebook account knows you? As the power of the “like” grows, political campaigns and companies are harnessing it to influence and track the public’s …
Darkness Sparks Creativity?
How Dim Lighting Raises Self-Determination And Lowers Inhibitions If you’ve ever stared at the blinking cursor on a snow white document, you know the frustration of trying to summon your …
Creativity Lessons: Charles Dickens & Steve Jobs
by Anne Kreamer Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet …
Does Creativity Have a Dark Side?
One of the oldest debates in psychology concerns the relationship between creativity and mental illness. Although the popular stereotype of the mad creative genius is based more on Hollywood movies …
Eccentricity is important for Creativity
Do great artists need to be geniuses like Mozart, composing symphonies from age five? Or troubled souls, like Vincent Van Gogh, who cut off his ear before ultimately committing suicide? …
Neurotics shine in team settings
Give your anxious, negative colleagues a chance, and they just might surprise you. Two new studies have found that highly neurotic people, while initially not inspiring confidence, often defy expectations …
Isaac Asimov On Creativity
How do people get new ideas? Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially the same in all its branches and varieties, so that the evolution of a …
Bipolar disorder & the creative mind
The suicide death of Robin Williams has generated interest in the relationship between creativity and depression. No one knows the nature of Mr. William’s problems (added to them today was …