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This lesson on how to improve creativity focuses on the key element which must be present for creativity to occur and how master creatives have put it to use.

This lesson on improving creativity covers research and discoveries from generativity research and how to apply this to developing creative skills.

This lesson on improving creativity focuses on the research of J.P. Guilford and an exploration and practice of creative thinking.

This lesson on improving creativity covers an incredibly powerful creative method known as morphological analysis and includes application and practice of the method.

What is metacognition?

Metacognition is awareness and understanding of one’s own thinking. It’s the ability to examine how we process thoughts, feelings, and information.

In short, metacognition is learning about learning and thinking about thinking.

Enjoy this introduction to metacognitive practices on learning about learning.

In the previous session, we learned the three phases of metacognitive learning and three questions to get us started in each phase.

Here, we can expand on the questions to further drive metacognition.

By the end of this session we’ll have a total of nine questions. Three for each phase of metacognitive learning.

Tanner’s Four Metacognition Assignments

Educator Kimberly Tanner came up with four practical steps for applying metacognition in the form of four assignments. I think they’re a wonderful addition that can put our metacognitive learning skills over the top.

This lesson focuses on improving creativity by exploring a key concept referred to as "silencing the inner critic," why it is so valuable and how to master it.

This lesson on improving and developing creativity focuses on the development of an essential creative skill which expands our perceptions of the "possible" through active and creative game play.

This lesson explores how to improve creativity through the process of freethinking including the seven guidelines for successfully applying this creative method.

This lesson on improving and developing creativity focuses on the work of J.P. Guilford.

Psychologist J. P. Guilford identified four key measures of creative thinking.  Understanding these four measures is another useful method to improve your creativity.

This lesson is design to empower and improve our creativity by revealing a fundamental element of creativity discovered through research into the works of ten great composers.

This lesson on improving and developing creativity and creative skills explores the value of novelty and how to increase this vital component in creative works of all kinds.

Novelty is the quality of being new, unusual, original.  If we are to meet the creative criteria of novelty, of having our ideas be new, unusual and original we need to reach past the obvious solution to the novel one.

This lesson focuses on how to improve creativity in the development stage through the use of creative mapping.

In this lesson on improving creativity, a wider, model-based perspective of creativity is explored.  Comparing multiple models reveals empowering lessons.

This lesson on improving creativity and developing creative skills covers four strategies for empowering creativity used by exceptional creatives.

Whether working from an existing form or a blank page or no page at all, there is an element that needs to be present and is, at the same time, one of the greater challenges to overcome.  This lesson on how to improve creativity addresses this challenge universal to all creative thinkers.

This lesson on how to improve creativity covers three different approaches to inspiration and sources of inspiration with the objective of empowering the creative thinker to be able to summon any of the three at will.

This lesson on how to improve creativity covers a powerful practice proven to maximize creativity and creative problem solving.

One of the many benefits of creativity is that it enables the creative individual to focus their emotions into something constructive.  This lesson on creativity covers exactly which moods are most beneficial to creativity and when and where to apply them.

This lesson on how to improve creativity covers five benefits gained from the study of extraordinary works.

This lesson on how to improve creativity covers thought experiments as used by Albert Einstein.

This lesson on how to improve creativity covers  tremendously helpful creative method known as reverse planning.

This lesson on improving creativity covers the top ten most significant ways creative space can increase creativity.

This lesson on how to improve creativity covers elevating creativity through a simple activity done before or during creative work.

This lesson on how to improve creativity covers the most efficient creative method and a key and often overlooked component necessary to successfully applying this method,

This lesson on improving creativity covers the generation on revelation in creative work.

Cognitive Distortions

Psychiatrist Aaron Beck led research on cognitive distortions in the 1960’s during his development of a treatment method called cognitive behavioural therapy.

Cognitive distortions are thought patterns that cause people to view reality in inaccurate and negative ways. They cause thinking errors — usually with a negative bias.

Since these distortions cause errors in thinking, learning to identify and overcome them is an important skillset for both mental clarity, mental well-being, and better thinking.

Most people can experience occasional cognitive distortions. So, it’s important that we learn to recognize them.

How do we overcome cognitive distortions?

The key to overcoming cognitive distortions lies in recognition and reinterpretation.

Recognize that a negative thought may be built on a cognitive distortion. And reinterpret that negative thought to disassemble unsound reasoning.

Based on these two tools, let’s expand our skills in this video session.