Welcome to the latest roundup of Creative Intelligence tips and thoughts from around the web.  This week: Edward de Bono, Richard Florida, Hugh McLeod, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — and thoughts from Creativity Portal and Psychology Today.

• How The Recession is Hitting Creatives by Richard Florida: Unemployment and the Creative Classes.

• Great Creativity Tips from Hugh McLeod: Ignore Everybody | Gapingvoid.

• Edward de Bono on creative thinking.  Check out more from Doctor de Bono and solve his three creative challenges at www.thinkoutsidethebox.se

• Lesser-known insights about creativity that may surprise you: 3 New Facts About Creativity | Psychology Today

• Creative Liberation: Learn the Un-Rules: Rules of Creative Liberation Part II.

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Ted Talk (www.ted.com) on Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow. Noting that money cannot make us happy, Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” and looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow” for the answers.

Author: Orna Ross

Orna Ross is an award-winning novelist and poet, advocate for self-publishing and, as Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, "one of the 100 most influential people in publishing" (The Bookseller).