In the spirit of a Creative Personal Philosophy, I try to hold my beliefs lightly and without attachment. I welcome any constructive comments and challenges to my thinking. So please contribute your thoughts and perspectives. I value this discourse as a vehicle for our mutual personal growth.

Gopal Ramasammy-Cook, ZestWare Facilitator

BLOG CATEGORIES

• Creative Learning
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Creative Personal Philosophy
• Career-Creativity
• The Internet as Creative Resource

Creative Learning

CREATIVE LEARNING FACILITATION

• Coaching
• Teaching

CREATIVE LEARNING TOOLS

• Music
• Play
• Ideas
• Relationships
• Questions
• Emotion
• Experimentation
• Metaphor
• Story
• Archetype
• Words
• Values
• Humor
• Pictures

Creativity

• Paradigms
• Creative Engineering of Desirables
• Process or Product?
• Robert Epstein
• Idea Boosting
• Creativity Difficulties
• Embarrassing Question
• Creating Value
• Six Hats
• WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson
• Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain - David Lynch
• An Illustraded Explanation of Disruptive Innovation
• 10 Great Creatively Motivational Quotes
• "Flügelwesen" inspired by Theo Jansen
• Theo Jansen - Strandbeest ("Beachbeast")
• Imagine It!
• The powerful link between creativity and play - Tim Brown
• The Neuroscience of Creativity - Baroness Greenfield
• Cultivating the Creative Mind - Utah Valley University (UVU)
• Acquiring a Creative Mind - Dr. Eric Maisel
• Honoring the Creative Process - Dr. Eric Maisel
• Understanding Goal-Oriented Creativity - Dr. Eric Maisel
• Music and the Brain: Depression and Creativity Symposium
• Let Go of Correctness - Dr Eric Maisel
• Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions
• Feeling stuck creatively? - Dr. Eric Maisel
• Tapping Your Natural Weirdness

Innovation

• The Art of Innovation in 10 Steps - Guy Kawasaki
• 2010 Innovation Summit - What is Innovation?
• Innovation is Easy: Tom Peters
• Innovation at Google
• Creating a Culture of Innovation - Harvard Business Publishing
• BMW (South Africa). Defining innovation.
• What Sparks Business Innovation?
• Disruptive Innovation
• The Myths of Innovation - Scott Berkun
• "Back to Orbit" - A Song About Innovation
• Innovation Keynote Speaker Jeremy Gutsche
• Innovation at Procter & Gamble - Harvard Business Publishing
• How to Spot Disruptive Innovation Opportunities - Harvard Business Publishing
• Russell Simmons on Innovation and Business - Wall Street Journal
• Open Innovation - Henry Chesbrough
• Innovation Mythbusting: Special People and Special Places?
• Innovation from a Dream of Merging the Physical and Digital Realms
• Crowd Accellerated Innovation
• Everyday Inventions?
• Innovation Leadership - UQ Business School, DOWNTOWN
• Leadership and the Eye for Innovation
• Critical Moments in Leadership: Changing the Rules
• Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Change

Creative Personal Philosophy

• Metaphors and Models in a Middle-World Mind (Video: Richard Dawkins)
• Creative Metaphors: The Pain Body (Video: Eckhart Tolle)
• Enriching Our Inner Maps
• Creative AND-Thinking
• Sex, Love, and Videotapes
• Creative Metaphors: Masculine and Feminine Energy
• Meaning Machines
• Creating More by Doing Less
• Looking at the World in Interesting Ways
• Freedom
• Prosperity
• Significance
• Happiness

Career-Creativity

• A Case for Creativity in Business - My Elevator Pitch
• Create the Career You Want
• Career-Creativity: Three Approaches
• Work-Role Metaphors
• Career Metaphors
• Organizational Metaphors
• Career-Creativity: A Fourth Approach
• The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris
• Philosophy of Career Success - Stefan Molyneux
• Creative Leading - Robert Alan Black
• Building Creativity in the Workplace - Ford Saeks
• Create the Work You Love - Teresa Proudlove
• Reinvent Your Career - Nicole Williams
• Working Words
• Make Your Calling Your Career
• Career Makeover: Funny but Insightful Video
• Difficulties Experienced in Work and Career
• Work-Life: Interview with Golden 1 CEO
• The Modern Career Landscape
• Flow
• Strengths
• The Work You were Born To Do - Nick Williams
• Managing Your Career - Rich Alexander

The Internet as Creative Resource

• Creating a Profitable Career-Creative Video Website
• Getting People to Visit Your Career-Creative Blog or Website
• Career-Creative Relationship Management with AWeber