Denise Jacobs: Your Brain on Creativity

New Adventures, 19th Jan 2012

Your Brain on Creativity

While creativity seems ethereal, mysterious and often capricious, there is a biological side of the creative process that underlies the sense of being animated by the divine. Creativity is not just a state of mind and soul, but is also complex symphony of neurobiology, neurochemistry, and neuroelectricity. What is happening inside our craniums, amongst the cortex, hemispheres, and neuroglia when we create? How does the science of the creative brain turn concepts of ways to approach things like work, order, serious concentration, focus, and productivity on their ears? If we better understand the brain on creativity, we can hopefully leverage it's power for increased ideation, innovation, productivity, and flow.

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1. Your Brain on Creativity Denise Jacobs New Adventures in Web Design Nottingham, UK 19 January 2012
2. For the Twitter inspired: I am: @denisejacobs We’re at: #naconf @naconf I’m waxing philosophic about: #creativebrain
3. Little known facts about me…
4. I’m part Vulcan. Srsly!
5. Chickens are cute!
6. The. Best. Houseguest. Ever.
7. Writing is a callous process.
8. What’s in here
9. innerworkings
11. A deeply divided brain
12. Once upon a time…
13. …there was a brain, who was
14. Oppressed.
15. Cubicalia
16. (The BossMan)
17. All of the pressure…
18. “Check your chains.”
19. “I can show you what you are capable of. Check your chains.”
20. (empty desk)
23. Road was not clear
24. Go inside
25. Start along the path…
26. Cough, Rumble, Flash!
32. Beta v. alpha
33. Close your eyes…
34. But relax!
35. (brain)
36. “Genius is the offspring of the in-between.” - Jonathan Fields
37. Filters
38. Communication Addiction
39. Lo-fi time
40. “Don’t force creativity. Allow it to come to you.” - Erik Ford, To Sketch or Not to Sketch
42. Man with no name
44. “When you are playful, you are activating the right side of your brain. The logical brain is a limited brain. The right side is unlimited. You can (do and ) be anything you want.” - Madan Kataria, The Laughter Guru
49. There is an alternative
50. Embrace paradox
51. “Creativity is the merging of two incongruent ideas: creativity is about embracing paradox.” - Frank Chimero, Build Conference Nov. 2010, The Shape of Design
55. (return to cubicalia 2)
58. Laugh
60. Perfectly synced
67. Further reading http://www.alistapart.com/articles/reigniting-your-creative-spark/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/banishing-your-inner-critic/
68. The CSS Detective Guide CSSDetectiveGuide.com twitter.com/cssdetective 40% off for all NAConf delegates Shameless Self-Promotion #1
69. InterAct With Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design InterActWithWebStandards.com twitter.com/waspinteract 40% off for all NAConf delegates Shameless Self-Promotion #2
71. How to find me DeniseJacobs.com denise@denisejacobs.com twitter.com/denisejacobs slideshare.net/denisejacobs