Thursday, December 04, 2008

Creativity Part 3 - Creativity Builders

Some ways to exercise your creative muscles...

  1. Surround yourself with creative people - Who do you know who loves to think "outside the box" or is excellent at taking ordinary and making it extraordinary? Hang out with those people. Ask them questions. Pay attention to how their mind works and life is lived. Be their student whether they know it or not.
  2. Pay Attention - I rarely watch a movie, TV show or see an event without asking "How did they do that?" or even better yet, "How would I do that?" Part of why I love Disney World so much is that it oozes with the fruits of extremely creative people.
  3. Doodle, Draw, Dream - Once you become an adult, it somehow becomes wrong to waste time away with a paper or pen, or drift of to imagination land. In the process, the creative muscles get dull. Revitalize them by giving yourself room to play around a little bit and exercise the creative side to your brain.

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