Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

10 Hacks to Improve Your Home Office Productivity

If you work from home, the central part of your work life is the home office. For some, that means the kitchen table, but most of us assign a specific room to be the base of operations and (try to) do our work from there each day.

Given that we must take into consideration strategy before tactics, it stands to reason that we should make it a room… » Continue

April 25 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: creativity, focus, home, ideas, office, workspace | 18 comments»

Lifehack Live for April 14, 2008: Game Inventor Nick Kellet

Sorry this is late; there were unforeseen technical problems getting thelthee uploaded. Thanks for your patience.

This weeks’s guest is Nick Kellet, creator of the award-winning party game GiftTRAP, talking about innovation, marketing, and the elements that go into a successful game.

If you have any questions, comments, or complaints, please let me know.

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April 15 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, innovation, marketing, Podcast | no comments»

Working in Project Space

One of the givens in David Allen’s Getting Things Done is that you can’t “do” a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate “next actions”, discrete doable chunks that can be “cranked through” with a minimum of effort.

While this approach works pretty well for a lot of tasks, it falls short for a lot of creative people for whom the “meat” of their work cannot… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, distraction, gtd, procrastination, Productivity | 17 comments»

How to Fuel Your Idea Machine

“Reading fiction is a waste of time.”

Have you ever heard someone spout this line of complete and utter bollocks? I’ve rarely heard anything so ridiculous said in my life. Fiction, like all the arts, is an important part of culture; both a reflective distillation of it, and the base elements that form it. Society’s collective attitudes, values, beliefs and the public memory have a symbiotic relationship with the arts.
Books… » Continue

April 12 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: books, creativity, fiction, ideas, problem-solving, reading | 21 comments»

Join Me Today for Lifehack Live at 10am PST: GiftTRAP Creator Nick Kellet

Come join me this morning (4/10) at 10am Pacific time for the live recording of Lifehack Live. This weeks’s guest is Nick Kellet, creator of the award-winning party game GiftTRAP. WE’ll be talking about innovation, marketing, and the elements that go into a successful game.

As always, I’ll be taking your calls during the show, so call in with your questions and comments. The number is (347)… » Continue

April 10 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, innovation, marketing, Podcast | 2 comments»

Quantity Breeds Creativity

One of the problems with our education system is that it teaches that for most questions there is one correct answer. Examinations with multiple choice questions force the student to try to select the right answer and avoid the wrong ones.

So when our students leave school they are steeped in a system that says find the ‘right answer’ and you have solved the problem. Unfortunately the real world… » Continue

April 7 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: creative, creativity, edison, imagination, problem-solving, solution, thinking, toyota | 10 comments»

29 Worn Out Perspectives in Need of the “Oh Really?” Factor

We all have places in our lives where we get stuck, augured in by a particular belief like, “work is hard,” or “children are too expensive,” or “politicians are evil.” To make matters worse, we often can’t distinguish between the truth and a disempowering belief because we attach little refrains like, “that’s just the way it is.” It’s as if our minds have become the honeymoon destination for Archie Bunker… » Continue

April 4 2008 | By Lisa | Tagged: creativity, pattern, routine, self-knoweldge, thinking | 39 comments»

The Ultimate Writing Productivity Resource

Last week, I launched a new site I’d been working on for several months, dedicated to technology and the writing life. Since I’ve been eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping "writing" all week, it seemed natural to pull together some of the tools, sites, and Lifehack.org tips I know of that can help make writers more productive, organized, and creative.

Note: Maybe you don’t consider yourself a… » Continue

March 31 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, editing, publishing, revision, writers, writing | 51 comments»

Welcome Failure

Very often the best way to test an idea is not to analyze it but to try it. The organization that implements lots of ideas will most likely have many failures but the chances are, it will reap some mighty successes too. By trying numerous initiatives we improve our chances that one of them will be a star. As Tom Kelley of IDEO puts it… » Continue

March 27 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: creativity, failure, imagination, leadership, Management, problem-solving, success, thinking | 10 comments»

30 Tips to Rejuvenate Your Creativity

Recently, we asked the readers what their tips for staying creative were. Sometimes creativity flows from the heavens, but other times, as we all know, it’s like drawing water from a stone. The following are the best tips you gave us.

1. Surround yourself with creative people. Hang out with writers, musicians, poets and artists. Often, just being in a creative environment will inspire you and refresh your creative mind.

2… » Continue

March 20 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: creativity, ideas, inspiration | 49 comments»

Look for the Solution within the Problem

Two prisoners dug a tunnel from their cell 80 feet to escape from prison. Where did they hide the dirt? This is one of the examples used by Roni Horowitz of the consultancy group SIT to show the advantages of a method called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT).

The answer is that they hid the dirt in the tunnel. The prisoners stole nylon sacks from… » Continue

March 14 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: creative, creativity, imagination, lateral, problem, puzzle, solution, solving, thinking | 11 comments»

Unleash your Inner Genius

Let’s say you are wrestling with a tough issue - maybe at work, at home, with your children or in your social life. You have been stuck for a while and you can’t seem to make a breakthrough. You want to come up with some really creative ideas. What can you do? Here are ten great practical ways to boost your inventiveness and to crack the problem:

1. Ask why… » Continue

March 7 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: brainstorming, creativity, idea, ideation, lateral, problem, problem-solving, solution, thinking | 9 comments»

Lifehack Live for February 4, 2008

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This week I talked with author, teacher, hypnotherapist, and creativity expert Jurgen Wolff. To learn more about Jurgen, check out his blog Time to Write, as well as check out his projects at BrainstormNet, TimeToWrite.com, and Your Writing Coach. You can also subscribe to his free monthly brainstorming bulletin by sending an email to BstormUK@aol.com.

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February 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, jurgenwolff, Podcast, writing | 4 comments»

Lifehack.org db clay Giveaway Grand Finale!

This is the last week of our db clay giveaway — very special thanks to db clay for offering such fun and beautiful prizes! To take things out with a bang, they offered to kick it up a notch for the last week, so this week’s prize is something <even more special: a limited-edition, one-of-a-kind wallet from their “Puzzle” line.

db clay’s Puzzle wallets are… » Continue

January 31 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: context, creativity, wallet | 151 comments»

Lifehack Live for January 28, 2008

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This week on Lifehack Live I talked with Liz Strauss of Successful (and Outstanding) Blog. Liz and I talked about the importance of relationships, both online and off, and how to create and maintain the relationships that nurture and provide meaning to our work, our lives, and our selves. (Note:Liz’ voice is a little muffled at the beginning, but gets better a few minutes in… » Continue

January 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: Communication, creativity, Podcast, relationship | no comments»

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