Traditional hiring filters out anyone who doesn’t fit the mold — the artist who codes, the teacher who can analyze data, the entrepreneur who can dream.

A large study shows that AI can enhance creative thinking by encouraging exploration rather than efficiency alone.

Your mindset is a powerful determinant of how creative you are. Open up your thinking and you open up the possibilities for a ...

Creative thinkers often display unusual habits—like daydreaming, quirky workspaces, odd sleep cycles, and bursts of intense ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. The science of creativity also provides a much-needed ...

Considering how beautiful and otherworldly creative endeavors can be, you'd think that artists would have come from such loving and passionate homes to possess talents that are able to move others ...

New research shows that ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is linked to higher creativity, and that this ...

There's an old idea that madness and genius go together. We like to link art and danger, imagining that artists, like Christ figures, suffer for our sake, enduring poverty and terrors in order to ...

Being creative is a source of happiness for many people. Whether engaging in art, music, writing, cooking, gardening, crafting, or inventing, stretching your creativity muscle is good for you and for ...

Creative people often have chaotic bursts of inspiration that lead to what they believe are great ideas, but that people with average minds find bizarre. These people don't live like the average ...

When I was at the beginning of my Ph.D. studies, my advisor at Stanford, Professor Gordon Bower, invited each of his first-year graduate students to his house for dinner. After dinner, he asked each ...

There are people who do yoga, learn a language, or water plants in their free time. And then there are them. Those who one day looked in the mirror and said, “What if I knit my toaster a sweater?” ...