Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity is an inborn talent of all human beings and it can also be developed. When youace challenges which you ot able to solve in a conventional way, it’s time to get creative. he World Economic Forum says creativity is one of the top 10 skills required for the future workplace. It’s is a useful tool to explore new and innovative ways of doing things, but there’s an added benefit to your mental health, since we being creative, your brain releases dopamine, which is a natural antidepressant.
Keeping your creative juices flowing can help you embracing and feel more in control. Expressing your innate creativity will help keep you motivated about the future.
This article provides 5 useful tips to boost your creativity:
1. Use your imagination: Creating space where you can disconnect and shut out external stimulation and impulses can help you to dream up all sorts of ideas.
2. Identify your creative time: Keeping a log and working out what time you are at your best for coming up with new ideas is very helpful in knowing when you will produce your most creative work.
3. Commit to continual learning: Adopt a lifelong learning mentality and cultivate a growth mindset. Open your mind and seek out new ways to test yourself.
4. Avoid energy drains: Energy is fundamental to creativity. When you are in a creative mode, it’s important to avoid anything that drains your energy.
5. Plan to do things differently: Seeing new things can help to spark new ideas. Messing up your routine and consciously seeking out ways to do things differently by exploring new environments, taking different routes and challenging your daily habits will help fuel your creativity.
In this eye-opening episode of SuperSoul Sunday, the well-known podcast hosted by Oprah Winfrey, renowned author Elizabeth Gilbert sheds light on two kinds of people: those who know what their passion is since early life and who dedicate their whole lives to chasing after it (the “Jackhammers”), and those who simply don’t know what that passion is, those who have lots of passions. They’re called the Hummingbirds. They’re the people who should embrace their curiosity and see where it takes them in life… they might just end up finding that passion after all.
Listen to the podcast episode here:
SuperSoul Sessions – The Flight of the Hummingbird
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If you were to watch only 1 TEDx which one you should not miss? This one! (55 million viewers cannot be wrong….).
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson, speaking for TED talks, makes an interesting case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Creativity is, according to him, the process of having original ideas that have value and it is possible only if we are not afraid of being wrong!
Children are not afraid and for this all children are creative. But schools teach them not to make mistakes and so they begin to stigmatize mistakes…
“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics”
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Derek Beres, in his article published on the blog “Big Think“, explains how our creativity is fading away due to our addiction to data and information.
Engaging creatively requires moments of peace, freedom and meditation. This becomes everyday harder since our brain’s attentional system needs constant stimulation.
Here are four suggestions to disconnect mentioned in the article:
1. Make a long walk—without your phone—a part of your daily routine
2. Get out of your comfort zone
3. Make more time for fun and games
4. Alternate between doing focused work and activities that are less intellectually demanding
“Research shows that the fear of missing out increases anxiety and takes a toll on your health in the long run. Of all the things to suffer, creative thinking is one of our greatest losses”.
To read more, see the full article
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Successful leaders continue to grow and learn on the job. In fact, an essential leadership attribute is the ability to remain open to new ways of thinking and to continuously learn new skills.
According to the research Learning About Learning Agility by the Center for Creative Leadership and Teachers College, Columbia University, the willingness and ability to learn throughout one’s career is increasingly important as changing technology, markets and methods require new skills and behaviors.
Over the long term, your ability to learn new knowledge, skills and behaviors will equip you to respond to future challenges more than your current skill-set.
Researchers found five tips that enable one’s learning agility:
- Innovate: Challenge the status quo
- Perform: Remain calm in the midst of adversity
- Reflect: Take time for reflection
- Risk: Purposely seek challenging situations
- Defend: Be open and avoid defensive thinking
Read more here
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Talent is made up for a third of instinct, a third of memory, and the last third of will – Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi, Italian writer and diplomat (1849 – 1910)
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Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted – George Kneller
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