Creativity Insights Podcast

How should you manage creative people? What should you tell them when assigning tasks? How do you inspire them and help them discover new things? How do you manage people in a specific field? Emily and Tess answer these questions and talk about managing creative people in the hospitality industry.

Kristina and Katie discuss the relationship between creativity, psychology, and mental illness. What is a tortured artist? Would they be as creative if they had not had a mental illness? Do we glamorize the connection between creativity and mental disorder? What is the effect of medical treatment on creativity? How is psychology the natural home of creativity? What do they say about the nature-culture debate over the source of creativity?

Creativity testing can have unintended consequences, particularly for undeclared, undecided, and impressionable students. What do creativity tests have to offer? What is the purpose of logic games and riddles as measures of creative problem solving potential, or convergent thinking? How do we test divergent thinking? Listen to Nina and Paige discuss these questions today on the Creativity Insights podcast.

Heather, Tess, and Amy talk about creativity in education from the perspective of teachers and students. How can you inspire a more open and creative environment in the classroom? How can you help students express themselves in ways that work best for them?

Michael and Nina explain the neuroscience of creativity. How does neurocreativity play into the health sciences? What does this mean for creativity in the health professions, and in particular for nurses? Think about it.

Amy and Matthew talk about creativity in the sciences. Does the notion of a "creativity crisis" apply to chemistry? Where do "new ideas" come from? How are they tested? Why does research in the sciences take so long? What are the misconceptions about creativity in science? 

Maria and Heather focus on English and literary creativity. Do writing workshops provide creative direction to aspiring authors? Or do they unduly prune out unique, new contributions? 

Johnny and Jocelyn talk about artistic and musical creativity. Is there a creativity crisis in music? How do rules of composition affect musical creativity? Does creativity thrive under constrictions and restraints? What about the obsessions of artists? Should and can they be contained by rules? How -- and to what extent -- does art and music reflect the stories and interpretations of art and music?