Think back to a time when you needed a quick answer, maybe for a recipe or a DIY project. A few years ago, most people’s first instinct was to “Google it.” Today, however, many people are more likely ...

In a culture that treats every idle minute as a missed opportunity, the idea that doing nothing could sharpen creative ...

Turns out a few Z’s can boost your creativity. A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests there’s a link between naps and a creative mind — but timing is key. Researchers from ...

A new sleep study suggests that quick naps may actually spark the creative process – a topic that has been speculated for decades. Researchers at MIT and Harvard University recruited 50 people to ...

How’s this for mad science: Within the next 15 years, people could elect to have their brains “zapped” to boost creativity in the workplace or classroom. The process -- based on functional MRI studies ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Surely, you’re familiar with ...

Sometimes doing something completely different from creating helps spark a creative project or motivates us to create. Simple tasks like doing the dishes or folding the laundry can quiet us in such a ...

Timelines, emails, back-to-back events—busy season for event professionals is no joke. And when it hits, your creativity can quickly take a backseat. This time of year has a way of turning even the ...

Creativity is often thought of as an innate ability or trait. (Steve Jobs was clearly creative, I'm definitely not.) Yet creativity, like confidence, can also be situational. For example, research ...

Beliefs about marijuana are often loaded with opinion, whether the views held are based on personal experience or conventional wisdom about the pros and cons of getting high. One of the most common ...

To many, B2B marketing has traditionally been jargon-laden and dense, weighed down by work that hammers business targets with dreary copy, imagery and promises of solutions to their problems. But ...