Creativity Sparks
- Do something mindless (take a long drive on familiar roads, do housework or yard work, take a long bike ride or walk)
- Find diversity as in thinking, images, people (colleges, libraries, museums, city parks…)
- Fill your head (Read books, newspapers, magazines, surf the Internet, watch movies, documentaries, listen to radio, talk to people)
- Take a lesson from a kid (kids are a model of creativity and energy, they have no mental boundaries)
- Go to the edge (do something that scares, break some rules, make self uncomfortable, create challenges for body and brain)
Creativity Killers
- Fear of risk, failure, looking stupid
- Routines (because we have always done it that way)
- Sameness (people who think the same way)
- Premature judgement
- Digression
- Unrealistic Deadlines
- Stakeholders who “know” everything
- Yourself (running on empty, “I think I can’t”, doing nothing, lack of discipline)
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