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Try these strategies to help you find your own ORIGINAL WORK way:
Identify your core beliefs and use them as your bedrock – They will give you the strength to challenge
rules that don’t make sense and strike out on your own and do things differently.Come up with your own
answers before learning how things should be done – Learn by doing and come up with your own ideas
first. In the 1920s, Eileen Gray wanted to become an architect but was not accepted in a field
dominated by men. She taught herself everything she needed to know to build her designs herself. Her
work proved her outsider ideas were at the cutting edge of modern architecture and drew the admiration
– and jealousy – of the great twentieth-century modernist architect Le Corbusier.Embrace weirdness –
At first, publishers disliked Dr. Seuss’s stories for kids because they didn’t have a clear, sensible
message. Dr. Seuss’s real message was to encourage children to free their minds and open up to new
ideas.“Dare to suck” – Once a week, Steven Tyler of the rock band Aerosmith gets his bandmates to
share ideas that they think are embarrassing to make sure they’re not dismissing anything good. Look
at what’s unpopular and question why people disapprove of it. Are you judging something’s worth based
on conventional values?Bring your knowledge from one domain into another – Apply techniques that
don’t belong, like aircraft designer Malcolm Sayer, who designed a car for Jaguar as if it were a fighter

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 jet. Breaking boundaries can turn something conventional into something groundbreaking.Spark
creativity with friction – Embrace clashing elements to create contrast and tension. Contrast highlights
the properties of each opposing element, the way a blue swimming pool looks bluer with an orange
inflatable floating on it. Tension creates suspense and interest, like Charles Dickens’s opening line in A
Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….”Adapt your projects to your
weaknesses – You may find that your weaknesses are in fact strengths. Andy Warhol had a poor sense
of color, but the crass, sharply contrasting shades in his works made them unique and
recognizable.Don’t aim for perfection – Be honest about your flaws. Your flaws can make your work all
the more compelling.

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EXPRESSING YOURSELF FREELY

ALLOWING THE MIND TO ROAM FREELY
TREMENDOUS SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE AND A LOVE OF PLAY

Almost all creativity requires purposeful play.”

Abraham Maslow

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 INPIRATIONS
Create Inspiration Board

sometimes Inspiration only reveals itself after perspiration.

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 Creative inspiration is all around us, but we don’t see it because we've grown up being taught to
look for it in specific places.

Use your negative experiences as creative inspiration. If something bad happens to you, look at it as a
compelling story or a chance to come up with an innovative solution. You can see it as something useful,
rather than as a setback.
“If you’re a creative person, everything is fuel; everything is a useable building material.”Rejection stings,
but you can channel the strong emotion it provokes into new creative work. Jeffery Katzenberg was
abruptly fired from his job as head of production at Disney after an argument with his boss. The experience
fueled his drive to found a new studio, the very successful DreamWorks SKG, whose early feature, Shrek,
poked fun at Disney characters.

Young believed this process of creative connection always occurred in five steps.

1. Gather new material. At first, you learn. During this stage you focus on 1) learning specific material
directly related to your task and 2) learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range
of concepts.

2. Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind. During this stage, you examine what you have
learned by looking at the facts from different angles and experimenting with fitting various ideas
together.

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 3. Step away from the problem. Next, you put the problem completely out of your mind and go do
something else that excites you and energizes you.

4. Let your idea return to you. At some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it, your
idea will come back to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy.

5. Shape and develop your idea based on feedback. For any idea to succeed, you must release it out
into the world, submit it to criticism, and adapt it as needed.

Collecting Source Material

“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be
influenced by.” - Austin Kleon

IMAGINATIONS

VISUALIZE

CURIOUSITY

DIVE DIP. Dig Deeper

“You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go
deeper than anybody else - that’s how you’ll get ahead.” - Austin Kleon

FLEXIBILITY

OPEN-MINDED

Remix Your Ideas

“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.” - Austin Kleon

EXPLORE
ALLOWING THE MIND TO ROAM FREELY
EXPRESSING YOURSELF FREELY

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 EXPERIMENTING

BREAKING RULES OR ADAPTING THE RULES TO SUIT THE SITUATION

MAKING MISTAKE

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 CHALLENGE YOURSELF
Look for more difficult approaches, try out new things and avoid always using the same solutions you have
used in the past.

DARING TO BE DIFFERENT

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 MANFAATKAN YOUR EMOTION

COLLABORATE
INDEPENDENT

CREATIVE THINKING IS TRAINABLE

SOME PART CAN’T BE THOUGHT

'The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.' – Sylvia Plath

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 Make Time for Creativity

You won't be able to develop your creative talents if you don't make time for them. Schedule some time
each week to concentrate on some type of creative project.

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 SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE AND INSPIRATIONS
A positive psychologist suggests that surroundings also play a role in the creative process.
Stimulating environments can facilitate creativity

• Limit yourself. Fewer tools and less time, counterintuitively, force you to be more creative.

MINDMAPPING AND BRAINSTORMING

Mind mapping is ideal for recording your wildest and craziest ideas without stopping to be critical or self-
edit. You can always critique later on and generate new ideas by “piggybacking” your original ideas.
A mind map is a great way to connect ideas and look for innovative answers to questions. Create a mind
map by writing down a central topic or word. Next, link related terms or ideas around the central word.
While similar to brainstorming, this technique allows for branching ideas and offers a very visual way of
seeing how these ideas are linked.

Try the Six Hat Techniques

The "six hats" technique involves looking at a problem from six differing perspectives.2 By doing this, you
can produce more ideas than you might have had you only looked at the situation from one or two points of
view.

Black Hat : Use a negative perspective. Which elements of the solution won’t work?

Blue Hat : Think broadly. What is the best overall solution?

Green Hat : Think creatively. What are some alternative ideas?

Red Hat : Look at the situation emotionally. What do your feelings tell you?

White Hat : Look at the situation objectively. What are the facts?

Yellow Hat : Try to be positive

Build Your Confidence

Insecurity in your abilities can suppress creativity, which is why it is important to build confidence. Make
note of the progress you have made, commend your efforts, and always be on the lookout for ways to
reward your creativity.

How to be insanely creative:

1. Know the '300 Rule'

2. Decide to be a maniac.

3. Grow a buzzing audience

4. Be a 'creative athlete'

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 5. Cut fake dopamine

6. Understand 'tempering'

7. Track output

8. Have a mission bigger than you

9. Results-oriented

10. Quantity + quality

Become a ‘creative athlete.’

You can’t create in a dark room all day and expect to maintain a relentless consistency.
You must feed and train your body properly in parallel to be creatively athletic.
Don’t eat trash and expect to be motivated. Develop an intimate sense for how your body responds and
runs best.

This is the secret to those who appear to pull energy from nowhere day after day.
They train their bodies in service of their work.

Cut artificial dopamine.

You spend five hours a day on social media, youtube, porn, video games and movies, and then wonder
why you’re unmotivated.

Short-term pleasure always comes with a price.

If you want to be insanely creative, you can’t allow your senses to be numbed by too much fake
stimulation.

Artificial dopamine spiking means your receptors become less responsive to ‘normal’ stimuli like writing or
making art.
Start replacing this passive stuff with creative action, and your body will reward you with a steady flow of
positive feelings.

Understand ‘tempering.’
In sword-smithing, they use a process called ‘tempering’ to improve the hardness and elasticity of the steel
by reheating and then cooling it.

A similar effect happens in your journey as a creator and audience-builder.

You must anticipate periods of contraction (cooling) and moments of rejection, or you will quit.

It’s all part of an overall strengthening and growth.

You could lose two followers as you gain five.

Your last piece might have been a hit, but the next one bombs. That’s good.

Just don’t quit, and you are guaranteed an upward trend of improvement and growth.

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 Meditate

Research has also shown that certain types of meditation are linked to an increase in creative
thinking. Meditation has long been used as a relaxation technique, but recent research has
demonstrated that health benefits extend far beyond relaxation.

One study found that using something known as open-monitoring meditation in which the individual is
receptive to any and all thoughts and sensations without focusing on any particular object or idea, can

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 increase divergent thinking and the generation of new ideas.

Look for ways to incorporate meditation techniques into your daily life.

Giving yourself this chance to start over with a fresh point of view can foster creative thinking and
lead to more novel solutions.

Creative work takes time

It can take years to perfect a piece of art, or build something unique.

Cultivate patience. And learn to enjoy the process. It’s part of the discovery.

Our brains are wired to create familiar patterns so that we don’t have to re-learn everything over and over
again. This is why new ways of thinking are often met with resistance.
But creativity asks us to change. Because that's what creativity is - presenting ideas that don’t conform to
those patterns.

Creativity - how to articles from wikiHow

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Creativity Archives - Tiny Buddha

Strategies to Improve Your Creative Thinking Skills

timeless wisdom pieces to awaken your genius

6 myths creativity research has disproven:

1. “You need a creative personality”

The mythology of the ‘creative’ has pervaded pop culture:

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 · Bob Marley
· Gal Gadot
· Picasso

But studies show ANYONE can be creative.

It just requires intentional work in an area of passion & expertise.

1. “Creativity happens when inspiration strikes”

It doesn’t.
It happens through iteration.

The first implementation will NOT be best.

Great creative works develop via consistent improvements.

As the founder of Pixar says:

“Every one of our films, when we start off, sucks.”

1. “You should stay 100% focused”

Quite the opposite.

Creativity’s greatest incubator is time and space.

If you’re overbooked with “tasks,” dreaming up creative ideas is impossible.

A bit of anti-focused exploration is a boon for creativity.

Go on a walk.
Read fiction.

1. “Put the phone & other technology away”

Technology, paradoxically, helps.

Of course, distractions are bad.

But, used for greater productivity & time, tech helps.

Example: Canva.
It’s a canvas for creativity.

Invest in Canva-like tech that increases productivity.

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6 lessons on creativity:

1. YOU can be creative

2. It requires iterations to create a great creative work

3. Expertise is a requirement

4. Diverse teams that include experts & someone adjacent do best

5. Time & space foster it

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 6. Productivity technologies help

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