Charles Leon
Aha! The Beautiful Chaos of Creative ...

You know that moment when a solution arrives in the shower, fully formed, like Athena springing from Zeus's head? Or when you've been staring at a problem for hours and suddenly—click—everything makes sense? That's not magic. That's your brain doing something simultaneously elegant and absurd: questioning everything it thinks it knows.

Aha! The Beautiful Chaos of Creative Breakthroughs
Charles Leon
The Ghost in the Machine

Welcome to the great creativity cage match of our time: human brains versus silicon chips. The question isn't just academic cocktail-party fodder anymore—it's urgent, existential, and frankly, a bit terrifying for anyone who's ever felt proud of thinking outside the box.

The Ghost in the Machine
Creative Thinking, Brain, Design Thinking, Flow, Mindset
Charles Leon
The Power of Boredom: Why Doing Nothing Feeds ...

We live in an age of perpetual stimulation. Our phones buzz with notifications, our screens flicker with endless content, and our calendars overflow with commitments. The modern world has declared war on boredom, treating every empty moment as an emergency requiring immediate intervention. But in our frantic rush to fill every second with activity, we may be starving the very source of our creative power.

The Power of Boredom: Why Doing Nothing Feeds Creativity
Charles Leon
Inspiration - The Act of Breathing

I’ve always been fascinated by the moment an idea arrives — not the neat, tidy moment when it’s been polished and wrapped in ribbon, but the untidy, slightly breathless instant when something shifts in the mind and a new possibility becomes visible.

Inspiration - The Act of Breathing
Creative Thinking, Design Thinking
Charles Leon
Why Designers Think Differently

When someone eats your last Rolo, you feel a totally disproportionate sense of loss. It’s not about the chocolate. It’s about the gap. The narrative was broken.

So, we became wired not just for survival, but for pattern and narrative. We became restless, creative creatures—itchy with the need to make meaning. We drew patterns in the dirt, scratched stories on cave walls, and eventually, designed complex systems, cities, and even shoes that glow in the dark. All of this because our brains, forever uncomfortable with uncertainty, keep asking, What happens next?

Why Designers Think Differently
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Clouds and Clocks

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Clouds and Clocks

Systems and reductionist thinking.

According to Karl Popper, all problems are either Clocks or Clouds. A clock is something you can take to pieces analyze the parts and work out how it works. A cloud is a dynamic system, you can’t it apart. The way to understand a cloud is to study it in a holistic way.

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The Pepsodent Principle and smoking! Replace Bad Habits for Good!

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The Pepsodent Principle and smoking! Replace Bad Habits for Good!

32 years ago I used to be a very heavy smoker, nearly two packs per day. Soon after the birth of my daughter, we brought her home from the hospital. As I held her in my arms I was also just finishing a cigarette. My daughter gave a little cough and I realised if there was ever a time to give up smoking this was it!

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4 ways to get more creativity into your life, using the only 2 things you can control.

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4 ways to get more creativity into your life, using the only 2 things you can control.

· Creative thinking is something we all want in our lives, but often don’t think they’re are capable of it.

· Most people think creative thinking is just not for them, that it’s a mystical magic force.

· Most people think creativity is a talent you are born with, so they don’t even try.

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