Growing genius through artfulness
Once upon a time it was considered that our beautiful brains operated in halves, or hemispheres. To break it down to it’s simplest form – the left is predominantly the rational, analytic, logical, detail loving side. The Right non-linear and instinctive – interpreting emotions and non-verbal cues etc. – it’s speciality is context & the big picture [...]
Here is a small presentation I made to give you the quick and dirty on being creative and the benefits of living an artful life. The importance to children’s development and as they become well rounded adults able to adapt and change their thinking to the many new advances and changes we face on a [...]
So we have discussed how easy it is to start being more creative…simply ask more ‘why’ and ‘why not’ questions…that is a great place to start. But why should you, I mean why all that extra effort and energy? Alvin Toffler (American writer and futurist) famously wrote “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not [...]
I have been a proponent of thinking and creativity for a very long time. I can’t remember when I first started reading studies about ideas and thinking and creativity – but it was long before I developed the ARTrox Imagination Station concept. I was excited by the thought that encouraging creativity and participation in the [...]
Ask a room full of 3 year olds to put up their hands if they are creative and you will get almost all hands waving furiously in the air, sometimes both hands. Ask a room full of 10 year olds, you might get half of them tentatively putting up their hands, with a lucky few [...]
