Using Neuroscience to Optimize Creativity

Creativity is often listed as the top or second most desired trait in employees, colleagues and friends. Yet creativity is rarely explicitly taught in schools or universities and often actively discouraged by educators and employers.
Can creativity be trained? If so, how? Drawing from cutting edge research, neuroscientist and musician Dr Indre Viskontas provides a framework for how to think about creativity, what we can do to encourage and enhance it and why it matters more today than at any time in human history.