CREATIVITY SPECIAL.....................What are key ways that people can practice optimizing their creativity?

What are key ways that people can practice optimizing their creativity?

The most important thing we can do as individuals is to challenge our (physically) established thought patterns. Our brain has a very logical way of working, and that is very helpful most of the time, but we also get lazy in terms of challenging this local way of reasoning. We can fight this laziness in two different ways, either by working on actual creative problem solving or by simply training our ability to reach 'random' associations. I give these 3 specific examples .

1- Constant Practice! For example, over the next 2 weeks when brushing your teeth, think of as many random words as possible associated with the toothbrush. How random were the words? At first it may feel challenging to do this, but over time you’ll get better at it.

2- Sleep On It Think of a problem before you go to sleep- but don’t try to solve it! Just fall asleep. Chances are you will dream–and when you awake write down all that you remember, no matter how far fetched the ideas seem. You may have dreamt of an idea that can assist in your problem
solving.

3- Random Prompts Many people do not realize that Wikipedia has a “random article” tab on the far left side. Let’s say you look up “trees”, and when you click on the “random article” tab an article on “MV Dittisham Princess” pops up. See what sorts of associations you can make between trees and this passenger vessel!


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