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Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to boost a team’s creativity is to unshackle them from constraints. … Unfortunately this approach can actually be counter-productive.

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Constraints have a Goldilocks quality: too many and you will indeed suffocate in stale thinking, too few and you risk a rambling vision quest. The key to spurring creativity isn’t the removal of all constraints. Ideally you should impose only those constraints (beyond the truly non-negotiable ones) that move you toward clarity of purpose.

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How constraints boost creativity.

As Six-Word Memoirs founder Larry Smith memorably put it, “The constraint fuels rather than limits our creativity.” 

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Background noise creates a distraction, but balance is key. A moderate level of background noise creates just enough distraction to break people out of their patterns of thinking and nudge them to let their imagination wander, while still keeping them from losing their focus on the project all together. This distracted focus helps enhance your creativity. The study’s authors explain that “getting into a relatively noisy environment may trigger the brain to think abstractly, and thus generate creative ideas.

—Research suggests the right amount of ambient noise increases creativity – which makes sense, considering the unconscious processing phase of ideation. (via explore-blog)

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Nothing is permanent. Not even Enlightenment.

—Hxni (via pancakesmadeofprana)

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I align myself with people who support my growth. If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

—Dr. Wayne Dyer (via lunasherah)

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Now let’s talk about you. As long as you want to become enlightened you are making a grave mistake, for there is no one to become enlightened. As long as you want to end your problems, and change your problems from bad to good, you’re making a grave mistake, for there are no problems. As long as you think there’s something wrong or there’s something right, or right overcomes wrong, and we have to try to correct the condition or situation, you’re making a grave mistake. You see, whatever has to happen has already happened.
There’s nothing you have to do, yet your body will do. Your body has absolutely nothing to do with spirituality. In other words, the relative world, the material world that you’re involved in, good or bad, rich or poor, healthy or sick, happy or sad, that world has absolutely nothing to do with spirituality. That material world doesn’t even exist. Only consciousness exists. Even though I tell you all of the time, do not be concerned over your affairs, for right actions will always take place. By right actions I mean the dharma, that which is supposed to happen.

—Robert Adams (via ashramof1)

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

—Franz Kafka, Letters To Milena (via petrichour)

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