by Harold Taylor | Jun 8, 2020 | Creativity, General Time Management
This is a continuing series based on my recent e-book, How to set up an office at home, published and available from Bookboon.com. Marie Kondo, author of the book, Joy at work: Organizing your professional life, in an interview during the COVID-90 crisis, said that,...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 13, 2018 | Creativity, General Time Management
In case you haven’t read my last couple of blog posts, I have been discussing how some books, articles and other literature have been claiming that messiness aids creativity, while others claim the opposite. Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, authors of YOU: On a Diet, claim...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 6, 2018 | Creativity, General Time Management
Most of the articles associating a messy environment with creativity (mentioned in my last blog article) referred to the ping-pong study where participants were asked to write down as many uses as possible for ping-pong balls in a given time frame. Those participants...
by Harold Taylor | May 30, 2018 | Creativity, General Time Management
Many years ago a TV personality from Montréal, Canada, interviewed me during a National Association of Professional Organizers conference in the U.S. It was for a TV special he was doing on messiness. Naturally, considering what I do and what I preach, I explained the...
by Harold Taylor | May 10, 2017 | Creativity, General Time Management, The Brain
Alex Osborn came up with the brainstorming technique back in the late 1940s, and a set of guidelines that we followed for decades. Basically, it involved a group of people blurting out ideas, no matter how ridiculous, without fear of intimidating guffaws, prejudgment...
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