Comments on: Spark Your Creativity by Thinking INSIDE the Box

By: “Limitaciones que inspiran” o “El diseño de sistemas cibernéticos complejos” « INVIERNO. OTRA VEZ

Sun, 17 May 2009 21:27:02 +0000

[...] Generalmente a la pregunta de cuál de los tres casos resultó más fácil de pensar, las personas responden que la tercera. A pesar de que la libertad creativa es siempre vista como algo positivo, en casos como este, tener total libertad de escribir cualquier tipo de historia tiende a paralizar a la gente. Este mismo ejercicio y una reflexión interesante sobre “coacción creativa” puede ser encontrada en: http://lateralaction.com/articles/thinking-inside-the-box/ [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:57:16 +0000

Thanks Antonio, Haleh.

@Haleh – Did you see my e-book, How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself)?

http://lateralaction.com/articles/motivate-creative-people/

By: Haleh

Haleh — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:07:21 +0000

I welcome any opportunity to step outside of self limiting boxes. Your wonderful blog is certainly a great motivator.

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HRM Today - Blog Archive » Think inside the box to increase your creativity — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:18:12 +0000

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Total Legal Radio » Creativity Thanks to Boundaries — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:17:32 +0000

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By: Antonio Almeida

Antonio Almeida — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:52:34 +0000

Personally I prefer a few pointers as ‘building blocks’ to help me get started – if not I will take tooo long and creative process stop. Some pointers speed up my creative process.

Great blog. Added to bookmarks!

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Seven things you may not know about me. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:58:20 +0000

[...] McGuinness, whose posts at Wishful Thinking and Lateral Action became must-reads for me as soon as I discovered [...]