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Creativity Blog

A blog dedicated to helping people become more creative.

All of the tips are short and to the point; most can be read in less than 2-minutes.

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CREATIVE PRACTICE

Pick a random book from the library

Picking a random book off a library shelf opens our brains to a potential chink of creative light, one that could not normally get through.

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CREATIVE PRACTICE

Your first idea is rarely your best

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams Our brains are amazing things; we...

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CREATIVE PHILOSOPHY

More gear won't make you more creative

It all begins in the mind, no matter what your creativity is the spark never happens with the equipment we use.

Stick with it until you get to the stupid ideas

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CREATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Stick with it until you get to the stupid ideas

We're exposed to the same stimuli as everyone else, so it's no surprise that what we create is very similar too. We need to get past stupid.

When people say "best" they really mean favorite

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CREATIVE PHILOSOPHY

When people say "best" they really mean favorite

Creating art for "likes" is a short-term game, sometimes only seconds long. In the modern world, what's fashionable changes quickly.

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CREATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Allow time for fermentation

Creativity and the fermentation process— our creative brain needs time to fully connect all the various pieces.

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CREATIVE PRACTICE

Open the Reticular

It doesn't start with our minds; it starts with what we allow into our minds.

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CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Take a walk along an unfamiliar path

When we walk along an unfamiliar path, our brains are free to take in all the new sights and sounds, and we become totally absorbed.

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CREATIVE PRACTICE

Permit yourself to daydream

Daydreaming happens in mindless situations where we have little to do, or the task is so mundane that it allows our minds to wander.

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CREATIVE OBSERVATION

Look up at the sky

Not all of us live in a place with fantastic views, but we all have a patch of sky we can stare at.

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CREATIVE PRACTICE

Turn off the TV

Studies over the last 25 years are showing that too much TV viewing can also affect our cognitive thinking.

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CREATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Stop saying you're not creative

The creative child inside never goes away; it just gets silenced by the constant command of those around us to let go of childish things.

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