The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation | Episode 103

• Something that feels novel.
• Something that feels true.
• Something you want more of.

• Executive network: to eliminate choices.
• Default mode network: for spontaneous imagination that arise when you stop paying attention to the external world.
• Salience network: to pay attention to what’s more interesting in the external world or in your mind.

• Open monitoring meditation (For divergent thinking).
• Focused attention meditation (For convergent thinking).
• Yoga nidra (For divergent thinking): it creates a 65% increase in the release of dopamine.
• Explore patterns of movements (for divergent thinking)

Allow whatever thoughts, emotions or ideas arrive to occur.

Focusing your attention on one stimulus.

• Serotonin can increase both Convergent And Divergent Thinking
• Cannabis can increase too much divergent thinking, but those ideas can be forgotten.
• Being in a good mood facilitates creative thinking.

According to this theory, there are three elements to enhance creativity:

• World building: imagine new worlds are posible by creating new rules.
• Perspective shifting: think about others underlying motivations.
• Action generating techniques: force collaboration