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Think Inside The Box
http://www.johnarmato.com/blog
Essays on the creative process, communications and a life of ideas
- Added on: Feb 4th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Public Relations Personal
- Tags: thinking Magic creativity
Recent Posts
Good Riddance and Good Reminders: 5 Communications Lessons from an Appendectomy
MAYBE MY APPENDIX WASN’T ENTIRELY USELESS. The unexpectedly urgent (and unwelcome) need to have it removed earlier this week knocked me off my feet, but the experience offered some good reminders for communicators: When you’re talking to ...
Fewer Ideas, Em Dashes Where They Belong, No More "Got?" and 17 Other Hopes for 2010
PART RANT, PART INTROSPECTION, PART ASPIRATION, the following are my wishes about communications, creativity and living a life of ideas that I hope come true next year: I hope writers learn (and apply) the difference between a hyphen, an en dash and...
A Short Thought about Time ...
IT’S THE ONLY THING YOU REALLY HAVE.It’s yours when you’re alone, but ours when we’re together. Live it fully and it stands still. Miss the point and it races by. It’s at the core of music, love, and life …...
In That Ink, Upon That Paper, is Power
I GO BACK TO COLLEGE EVERY THREE MONTHS. Not as a student in a traditional sense, but as a member of the VanderCook College of Music board of trustees. I look forward to it, not only because I’m supporting something I believe in deeply ...
11 Tips for Flip Chart Management
FLIP CHART WHAT? The phrase “flip chart management” may sound a little ridiculous, but keeping and transcribing the notes from a brainstorm session is probably the least considered part of the process. And no, these suggestions aren’...
Light Bulb Man! The Superhero of Rapid Fire Ideas
GETTING STARTED CAN BE THE HARDEST PART of a brainstorm. And while I’m normally not much for icebreakers, team-builders, or gimmicky exercises, there is one technique that I’ve found is consistently both fun and productive. More important...
This is an eye-opener blog. Sorry, I meant creativity-opener blog. I loved the way you approach the idea of thinking inside the box. Creativity is moving away from the conventional. Repeating the term “out of the box” repeatedly renders it habitual and turns it into an accepted assumption.
I have recently published a presentation entitled "Creativity in the Box". In this presentation I gave plentiful number of ideas that I developed and tested. Here is the link
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/18707993/Creativity-in-the-Box
Trees grow and branch within a limited space (box). Their creativity is in rearranging to accommodate the growing tree within the available space. Bees build beautiful and creative structures within a limited cell (box). Ideas grow like trees and rearranging them within a box give them their edge of creativity.
Keep the good work
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