People who are serious about exploring their creative side develop and practice various methods of capturing new ideas. Artists carry sketchpads. Writers and advertisers carry notepads or pocket computers. Inventors make notes on napkins and candy-bar wrappers – especially inventors of new foods! With new creative abilities people are also better able to solve even
Creativity requires a challenge to start a flow of new ideas, then a way to capture them. New ideas are fleeting. You need to write them down quickly or they can be gone in a flash. Sometimes, a catchy title for an article, a name brand, a melody, a food recipe, a room arrangement pops
Everyone has creative abilities that operate all the time. You can enhance your creativity by surrounding yourself with diverse stimuli that is changed regularly. Diverse and changing stimuli promote creativity because they get multiple behaviors competing with each other. To boost your creative output, capture your new ideas as they occur, challenge yourself in order
Salvador Dali, the great surrealist, used to grab ideas for paintings from the very fertile semi-sleep state we call the hypnagogic state. He’d lie on a sofa and hold a spoon in one hand, balancing it on the edge of a glass placed on the floor. Just as he’d drift off to sleep, he’d release
Our creative potential is nearly shut down by early schooling. Teachers are the first to admit this. In kindergarten, all the kids are artists and inventors. Starting in the first grade, the kids have to work all the time. There’s no more time for fun, because there’s so much they’ve got to learn. They’re rarely
If creativity is so accessible, what’s holding us back? When a group of people are asked, “Please raise your hand if you consider yourself to be creative,” – why do only a few hands go up? Why are corporate leaders, government officials, politicians, crime fighters, teachers, and parents all starving for new ideas? Why are
A more important question to ask is: What do I LOVE to do? Then continue with: What am I GOOD at doing? What does the world need me to DO?
Corpus Callosum Creativity
As a practical matter, the right-hemisphere myth is a little nonsense because virtually no one has a split brain. The two halves of our brain are connected by an immense structure called the corpus callosum, and the hemispheres also communicate through the sense organs. Creativity has no precise location in the human brain. Creativity, in short,
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