What you focus your attention on determines how your life will be. In other words, your life experience to date-who you are, how you think, what you feel and do is the result of what you have chosen to focus your attention on.
Our focus of attention falls on a spectrum. At one end of the [...]

(From www.thisisindexed.com)
For those of you who’ve had that high heels from hell experience this simple incremental innovation will be very welcome!
From a company called Rollasole (www.rollasole.com) come vending machines  where you can get a pair of ballet flats for a fiver. What a great example of taking commonplace, everyday products (i.e. the almost ubiquitous vending maching and [...]

Ben Zander (pictured) conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, faced the same problem at the start of each semester. His students, all gifted instrumentalists and singers were so anxious over the measurement of their performance that they were reluctant to take creative risks and open themselves [...]

My previous post referenced why playing to your strengths makes sense. But what exactly constitutes a strength? And how do you find what your real strengths are?
What is a strength?
Firstly, it’s important to remember that your strengths are not necessarily limited to your skill-set. You may have attained a high level of competence in a [...]

A really interesting TED talk by Tim Brown of Ideo in which he links the importance of playfulness to ensure creativity and particularly in the world of design
Some of the main points included:
• The importance of creating a trusted environment where people feel secure and free to try out new ideas. He gives examples of [...]

Innovation Dublin is a week long festival running from Wednesday 14th October to Monday 20th October. The festival is a key project of the Creative Dublin Alliance ( a collaborative organisation of businesses, third level institutions Government sectors and the not-for-profit sector). The idea behind the festival,is was to highlight what Dublin can be proud [...]

Voting Ends: October 8, 2009
Google’s Project 10^100, launched last year, called for ideas that would change the world by helping as many people as possible.
The huge response (over 150,000 idea submissions from 170 countries) has been grouped together into the 16 different overall themes or “Big Ideas” set out below:

Enhance science and engineering education
Create real-world [...]

Most feedback focuses on the negative and the areas for improvement. In workplace assessments, even when the overall performance is exemplary, the emphasis usually swings towards the development “opportunities”. It’s as though our strengths and natural talents are taken for granted and our energy goes into correcting our weaknesses (real and perceived).
But is this the [...]

The BUBBLE exhibition is an exploration of the physics of foam and bubbles; it’s very hands on and has had over 50,000 visitors to date. BUBBLE was developed in collaboration with Professor Denis Weaire and Dr Stefan Hutzler, of the Foams and the  Complex Systems Group at TCD’s School of Physics.  Michael John Gorman, Director [...]

For many of us, airports are a necessary (evil) conduit to our destination; for Alain de Botton, renowned author of  The Art of Travel and Essays in Love they’re the “imaginative centres of our civilisation”. For one week last month, de Botton took on the unprecedented role of Heathrow’s writer-in-residence. His book, based on life [...]