Personal ideography

Sometimes imagination works overtime, filling the mind with all sorts of vivid images and concepts. The trick is to know when to pay attention to these and when to dismiss them out of hand. To avoid overly hasty decision of what ideas to keep and what ideas to throw away, a good practice is to jot them all down and go over them at leisure at a later stage. Indeed keeping track systematically of ones' ideas, and recording them digitally for easy retrieval or sharing (social media), would over time build up a considerable personal ideography serving as a source for inspiration, collaboration or reference.

Hardwired gender based ideation?

Psychological testing has consistently indicated a significant difference between the sexes in the ability to perform various mental tasks, with men outperforming women in some tests and women outperforming men in others. Now there seems to be a physical explanation: A pioneering study, involving a special brain-scanning technique called diffusion tensor imaging, has shown for the first time that the brains of men and women are wired up differently which could explain some of the stereotypical differences in male and female behaviour. The researchers believe the physical differences between the two sexes in the way the brain is hardwired could play an important role in understanding why men are in general better at spatial tasks and motor skills, such as map reading, while women are better at verbal tasks and social cognition tests involving memory, empathy and intuition. But could there be significant difference between the sexes in the ability to ideate? Or, performing intuitive tasks, often considered at the heart of creative pursuits? And how would any such difference be tested and measured given that design ideas are propositional rather than fully formed or resolved solutions to problems posed? Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-hardwired-difference-between-male-and-female-brains-could-explain-why-men-are-better-at-map-reading-8978248.html