Chapter
Creativity around the world
The eight creative traits
01: The information overload and the way it’s changing us
The scale of the overload
Disproportionate effect of overload on
millennial adults
Books have become ‘daunting’
How overload is changing the media
Improved chances for radicals (good and bad)
Less willingness to offend
How the world is actually getting better
No information is correlated with ‘nothing
happening’
Does the lack of reading also damage creativity?
Disproportionate effect of overload on women
What damage is the overload doing to women?
02: How did we allow ourselves to become so overloaded?
Competition and confidence
What are the problems in the system?
Too siloed and institutionalized
No response to the financial crisis generation
Not working closely enough with employers
What should education be trying to do?
Two worlds, still too far apart
03: The ‘always on’ environment
and its effect
‘Your rules don’t apply here’
04: Your brain and how to use it
Where did this notion come from?
A bit more complex than just left and right
Processes rather than hemispheres?
The impact of overload on the structures
The left and right in history and culture
So is the left brain, right brain a dead end?
When things go wrong: the link between creativity, mental illness and depression
Flow and pulse: the way to sustainable
creativity
The link between technology and sleep
The link between technology and
general well-being
06: Where great ideas come from
The ‘to-do list’ versus the ‘to-be list’
Truth, beauty and aesthetics
07: Generating better ideas
Generating better ideas: it’s all about you
Realize the whole subject is paradoxical
Don’t allow technology to interrupt
Conventional education may not be the answer
The next generation is not wrong but different
Don’t mistake the illusion of speed for the reality of it
Get more sleep and of a better quality
Learn how to be commercial and creative
Open your eyes and your heart
Be an outsider because there are no insiders
Creativity isn’t just for the ‘creative’
When you’re doing nothing, you’re still doing
something
The Eight Creative Traits (QED3RPT)
Generating better ideas: it’s all
about others
The concept of the ‘out breath’
The rules change higher up
Involve senior people and not just trainers
Remove people from their usual context
Take people out of their comfort zone
Be physical and practical in terms of activity
So, what else do you need to know?
Taking others into the zone
Offer workplace flexibility
Communicate the company’s mission
and values
The Rise Academy at LEWIS
The transformation process
Doing nothing is not doing ‘nothing’
Bringing creativity into a presentation
The Rise Four I’s Creative Cycle
08: How leaders apply creativity
A business success that doesn’t
understand business
‘You can’t polish a turd’
Expelled for reading too much
Just your average cat-breeding, stargazing, portrait-painting, military reservist
politician
The power of logic and emotion in leading
the Royal Navy
A final note on your creative potential
Too Fast to Think
：How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-connected Work Culture
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