The term “Innovation” no doubt competes for the prize as “most frequently used buzzword of the 21st Century”. Whether it’s radical, frugal, social, public, disruptive or open - it has become one of the most important concepts of our rapidly changing society and not wit...

Think of your mind as a movie set. If your thoughts are the actors then metacognition is the director.

“Metacognition” is thinking about thinking – and knowing about knowing. It’s the higher level of cognition that provides an overview of all cognitive activities taking...

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Awareness is crucial to creativity. Despite common beliefs, creativity doesn't just happen. You absolutely have to know how creativity works in order to use it intentionally to advance your work, whether it be professionally or personally. Awareness is a to...

Mindsettr in the making, prototying using the ULTRACORTEX from the OpenBCI project

Welcome to the future!

We have a small secret for you: CINC is currently developing a brainable, the Mindsettr. But what is a brainable?

We are all getting used to wearables: small smart...

Why we cannot reserve the concept of creativity for artists and marketers

Being an academic creativity researcher, it is always interesting to see how people in various industries consider the concept of creativity. While creativity seems to be gaining popularity in a v...

During the last couple of years CINC staff have been facilitating numerous workshops around the world. All equally interesting and exciting, but as all experienced facilitators know: organizing workshops is hard work! The number of participants has varied from six to 2...

Pablo Picasso once said: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after he grows up.” Many creative people tend to return to the conceptual world of childhood as catalysts for either their work or their ideas. Our ability to be creative, to exp...

In the last post, we explored how pieces of information are stored in groups of neurons. Recall that when thinking of an object, many different groups of neurons, forming a network, will be activated to give rise to all of the properties of that object. Groups of neuro...

The human brain functions on many structural levels, allowing us the ability to exploit sensory inputs like sight and sound to make simple decisions, to reason, solve problems, and to even experience complex feelings like empathy and happiness. To begin exploring how c...

As the summer sun started to peek out of the clouds, we were a bit too eager to take breaks and enjoy the nice weather, but we knew we still had to fulfill our utmost duty to spread the joy of creativity to the world. Fortunately, Somia Consulting, a Bali-based Custome...