How to capture your creativity
First note
Our creative potential is virtually shut don by early schooling. When there is no time for fun, eventually creativity will vanish.
Second note
The myths about creativity keeps us shore bound.
- With the right skills you can boost your creativity by a factor 10 or more.
- Creativity is an extension of what you already know
- New behavior and ideas emerge as old behaviors interact
- Behavior flows and it never stops changing
- Creativity is always an individual process
- Groups are better at selecting good ideas than at generating them.
4 techniques for a creative boost
1. Capturing
- Pay attention to new ideas that occur
- When an idea or thought flows in your mind, write it down
- Three B's for places, which are popular, to capture ideas. The Bed, Bath and Bus
2. Challenging
- Put yourself in difficult situations
- Go for open ended problem solving. As many as possible solutions
- Try to solve "Ultimate Problems"
a. You have 24 hours to create world peace
b. One year to stop pollution and prevent future pollution
c. Stop the process of aging
- Failure is a great wellspring of creativity
3. Broadening
- Train often
- Train diverse
- Take courses in subjects you know nothing about
4. Surrounding
- Surround yourself by diverse and ever changing stimuli
Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200910/capturing-creativity
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