Ayoa

MARCH 31, 2022

Over a million people have been using Ayoa to organize their creative thinking. We wanted Ayoa’s limitless possibilities to equal our user’s rapid creativity. That’s where Capture Maps come in – an innovative mind map setting that allows you to improve your creativity and record your thoughts at lightning speed.

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Ayoa

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Marketing has always been a creative industry, but with more voices than ever vying for customer attention, innovation has become the number one ingredient when it comes to standing out from the crowd. In fact, even numbers are subject to human error as selective thinking can impede our ability to properly interpret facts and statistics.

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Charles Leon

JUNE 5, 2021

Index of all blogs. Why creativity is so important for our collective futures. The talk undoubtedly inspired me to see creative education as paramount for our children and confirmed to me that the education system we have at the moment was built to serve the purposes of the industrial and colonial past. Sir Ken Robinson.

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Mind Mapping Software

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It enables you to extend your thinking in new ways by adding AI-generated topic suggestions and questions to your mind maps. This powerful ideas engine can help its users discover new ideas and insights and explore new paths of thinking and creative solutions they may not have considered otherwise. GenerateIdeas.ai

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Have you ever had the experience of getting tantalisingly close to a big opportunity in your creative career – but not quite making it? finally, The 21st Century Creative on YouTube) appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. Maybe you got really positive feedback.

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Imagineer7

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Creativity special: Ten top tips Tom Ward senior research fellow in the Center for Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior “Merge two previously separate concepts that are in conflict with one another. When you become an expert, move on.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

Welcome to Episode 5 of the CREATIVE DISRUPTION season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Click the icon below to listen.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

But does that type of space really have anything to do with creativity? A study (PDF) seems to have confirmed that higher ceilings can, in fact, help with creative thinking. Essentially, expansive spaces prompt higher levels of big-picture abstract thinking, while confined areas lead to more granular, detail-oriented thinking.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It's a dangerous fantasy that’s blocking your creativity. It's dangerous because it suggests that the essence of creativity lies in an intangible idea - which is somehow already safe and sound inside us, with no use-by date. Many of us associate the word 'creativity' with lateral thinking, brainstorming, and thinking ‘outside the box’.

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JULY 12, 2020

This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative Podcast is Joanna Penn, an Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers and dark fantasy, which she writes as J.F. She is also known for dispensing information and inspiration for authors and creatives via her popular podcast The Creative Penn, and her […].

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 17, 2021

In fact, a future of job assessment lists creativity as one of the top five abilities necessary today. Getting teams together and taking a step back to consider what our vision and mission are can be a terrific way to inspire creative thinking. Read our blog on: 10 Moves To Unleash Creativity At Work For Better Output.

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Lateral Action

AUGUST 19, 2020

The post Every Creative Project Is a Revolving Door appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. This emphasis on getting things done and out to market is part of their extraordinary entrepreneurial culture. Famously, Guy Kawasaki even said […]. Comments In reply to FJR. Thank you for the added nuance re public.

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JULY 10, 2019

The post The Creative Upside of Globalization appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. It’s why the shop in the high street are closing down. It brought us the global financial crisis. It helps multinational corporations avoid […].

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Faster Ideas

JUNE 9, 2021

I've been thinking about why the word has fascinated me so much. And asking what in the flipping juxtaposing heck it's got to do with my creative thinking? As ever, the purpose here is to tell you how you can use this in terms of creative thinking. When this innocuous thing happens, creative thoughts can thrive.

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Lateral Action

AUGUST 7, 2019

If you’re a self-employed creative, maybe you recognise this experience. The post Your Creative Business Is Your Utopia appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. The post Your Creative Business Is Your Utopia appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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JULY 4, 2019

The post Where Does Your Creativity Thrive? appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. He didn’t elaborate but there must have been something about being up and above the world below, able to survey it […].

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Lateral Action

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Back in 2016 I outlined a fundamental strategy for your career as a 21st century creative professional: forget the career ladder, start creating assets. The argument I made, and that I make week-in-week out in my work as a creative coach, was that there’s no career ladder for people like you and me – no […].

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Ayoa

MAY 19, 2022

Mind maps are famous as great creative tools. Also known as “brainstorms” or “spider diagrams”, people often associate them with the beginning stages of a project or as a tool used solely by the creative members of the team. Every team should embrace creativity. But it’s time to break mind maps out of this particular typecast!

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Lateral Action

JULY 26, 2021

And in several ways, it’s the opposite of my 21st Century Creative podcast. The post My new podcast (and why it’s the opposite of The 21st Century Creative) appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. I designed the two shows to work together from the start, although it’s taken […].

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Lateral Action

JUNE 28, 2020

This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is the eminent Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, who takes us on a voyage through the weird and wonderful world of artificial intelligence (AI) and creativity, drawing on insights from his latest book The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think (Amazon US […].

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JULY 1, 2009

Creativity guru Roger von Oech recently listed his choice of 10 Blogs to Stimulate Your Creativity at Blogs.com. The post Roger von Oech’s Top 10 Creativity Blogs appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Lateral Action

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The post The Creative Power of Envy appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. Why are they getting all the attention? It’s not a nice feeling is it? No wonder Envy is one of the seven deadly sins – […].

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Lateral Action

JULY 21, 2019

This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Peleg Top, an artist, a writer, a speaker and an inspired guide who coaches creative professionals to succeed and become extraordinary leaders in the process. The post Peleg Top on Fear, Love, Money and Creativity appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Today I publish my new book, 21 Insights for 21st Century Creatives. It’s a compilation of the most powerful insights that have emerged from my coaching conversations with creative professionals over the past two decades, and also from my own practice […]. You can pick it up from the usual bookstores.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative is Deborah Henry-Pollard, a creative coach based in London who describes her work as ‘Using my skills to support creative people who make us see the world in another way’ She is also the author of a great book called What’s Your Excuse for Not Succeeding as […].

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JUNE 26, 2017

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Joanna Penn, a best-selling, award-nominated thriller writer, as well as a publishing expert and host of The Creative Penn Podcast. The post The Successful Creative Mindset with Joanna Penn appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

As a creative coach I spend my days talking to inspiring creative professionals about their dreams, ambitions, trials, tribulations, breakthroughs and successes. The post 21 Insights from 21 Years as a Creative Coach appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. It’s a dream job – and an unusual one.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. The post From Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi Hatano appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

Welcome to Episode 7 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. The post Taking Deep Work Online with Laura Davis appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Mind Mapping Software

MAY 27, 2022

Something that you have the ability to control that is stopping you from a creative expression you desire, for instance starting a new business, getting into or out of a relationship, writing a book, moving to a new location or learning a new skill. Don’t stop at the first three ideas you think of. Step 3: Examine the cost of inaction.

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Lateral Action

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

My new book, Productivity for Creative People, has just been published. How to get creative work done in an “always on” world The book starts from the realisation that 21st century life presents a […].

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Faster Ideas

JUNE 16, 2021

How a Coco Chanel quote can help fashion your creative thinking. This isn't a blog about stripping. SIGN UP for the Faster Ideas newsletter and get creativity, inspiration and interviews in your inbox every Wednesday. Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off. Want more like this?

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Faster Ideas

MAY 12, 2021

I've previously talked more generally about the creative benefits of meditation and its power to , help your creative mind. So how does this help with creativity? As it is with creativity and creative thinking. We've mentioned this book on the blog before. Noticing is the key to mindfulness.

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Ayoa

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mind mapping is a versatile technique used by over 250 million people worldwide to capture ideas in a way that’s proven to boost productivity, creativity and memory. In this blog, learn how to organise information with this innovative and much-loved visual thinking tool. Ready to boost your creative thinking with mind mapping ?

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JULY 21, 2022

A lot of creative professions involve submitting work to gatekeepers of various kinds: agents, editors, publishers, gallerists, funders, producers, studios and competition judges and so on. The post Why Rejection Doesn’t Mean Your Work Isn’t Good Enough appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2015

After 18 months, four drafts and countless cups of coffee, my new book Motivation for Creative People is finally complete. The post My new book: <em>Motivation for Creative People</em> appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach. So what’s the […].

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JUNE 11, 2018

Welcome to the start of Season 2 of The 21st Century Creative, the podcast that helps you thrive as a creative professional amid the demands, distractions and opportunities of the 21st Century. It’s taken several months, many hours of work, and in the case of one interview, several thousand air miles, to put the new […].

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