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Can You Really Learn To Be Creative?

Creativity is teachable. Learn how environment, practice, mindfulness, and social validation help individuals and teams generate novel, useful ideas.

47 minutes
Key findings
  • Creativity is defined as generating ideas that are both novel and useful; anyone can develop it with the right approach.
  • Environment and culture critically influence creative performance; trust, kindness, and protected creative time matter.
  • Practice, experimentation, and social validation enhance creativity; collective intelligence often exceeds individual capability.
  • AI aids creativity but cannot replace human originality; combining data rigor with creative risk-taking is essential.

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Anne Laure Sellier HEC professor
Meet the Author
Prof. Anne Laure Sellier
Professor - Marketing

Anne Laure Sellier is the Cartier-Chaired Professor of Creativity and Marketing at HEC Paris. Anne Laure Sellier's current research interests are in the area of time perception influences on decision-making, creativity, self-regulation, self-control, consumer happiness, cognitive biases, and...

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