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[http://www.barbarasher.com/ Barbara Sher] helps people identify and follow their dreams. [http://www.wishcraft.com/ Wishcraft] is online for free. She has made several very fine PBS programs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4P6J7TAaoM&feature=related sample]. | [http://www.barbarasher.com/ Barbara Sher] helps people identify and follow their dreams. [http://www.wishcraft.com/ Wishcraft] is online for free. She has made several very fine PBS programs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4P6J7TAaoM&feature=related sample]. | ||
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+ | [http://people.ucsc.edu/~pmmckerc/create1.htm How writing improves creativity] | ||
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+ | [http://www.creativethink.com/ Roger von Oech] is a very good writer of popular books on creativity. | ||
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+ | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi] is the smartest researcher on creativity. His best known work is [http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-Invention/dp/0060928204#reader_0060928204 Flow]. here's [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/366 TEDtalk video] on Flow '''***''' | ||
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[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/yves_behar_on_designing_objects_that_tell_stories.html Yves Behar] has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. (TEDtalk video). | [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/yves_behar_on_designing_objects_that_tell_stories.html Yves Behar] has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. (TEDtalk video). | ||
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Revision as of 19:58, 2 December 2009
This page is about finding your passion, improving your creativity, and making a difference.
Video
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (74 min youtube version). longer Google video version ****
Sir Ken Robinson has written numerous books, most recently "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything." This longer 2009 talk explores ways to connect peoples' natural aptitudes with their personal passions to achieve at their highest levels in education and business. His TEDtalk on how schools kill creativity has been viewed 4 million times. ****
Books
Barbara Sher helps people identify and follow their dreams. Wishcraft is online for free. She has made several very fine PBS programs sample.
How writing improves creativity
Roger von Oech is a very good writer of popular books on creativity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the smartest researcher on creativity. His best known work is Flow. here's TEDtalk video on Flow ***
General Ideas on Design and Creativity
As a creative director at Ideo, Paul Bennett reminds us that design need not invoke grand gestures or sweeping statements to be successful, but instead can focus on the little things in life. TEDtalk video
Tim Brown on creativity and play (TEDtalk video).
Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. (TEDtalk video).
Inspired By Nature
Climbing devices based on geckos
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus TEDtalk video.
"Captain Organic," Ross Lovegrove embraces nature as the inspiration for his "fat-free" design. TEDtalk video