It happens when my mind is open, receptive and quiet. It can happen suddenly. There’s almost a joyful laziness to it. Kind of an “Hmm… wait! what if I tried this…” I am here to tell you a little about how to expand your creativity. We tend to associate creativity with arts, but it is also important in business. Creativity influences the way business gets done. But how do you expand your creativity? You have to be able to restrict yourself, to have an internal motivation, and to embrace something absurd.
Try limiting your work in some
way and you may see the benefits of your brain coming up with creative
solutions to finish a project around the parameters you’ve set. This can boost
creativity because it forces people to work outside of their comfort zone.
Not all motivation is created
equal. An inner passion to solve the problem, to create something new, leads to
a solutions far more creative than do external rewards, such as money. So do it
for yourself, not just for other.
The mind is always seeking to
make sense of the things that it sees, and surreal/absurd art puts the mind in
“overdrive” for a short period while it tries to work out just exactly what it
is looking at or reading, which can help with creative thinking. As Jonah Lehrer once wrote, “In fact, the
only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to
experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand”.
If you have difficulty with
coming out with an idea, or finishing a problem, try limiting your working
process, have an internal motivation or passion for what you are creating, and
go out and embrace something weird. It will expend your creativity and lead to
an amazing results!
So go on now...unleash your creativity to the world!
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