How to increase your creativity
Create one day each week that is unplanned
Spend time with friends
Create your vision
We all have patterns and behaviours that reduce our creativity and performance. One of mine is patience, better to say: impatience. I want things to be done right now. I don’t have time to wait for anything. In fact: I’m shown, day by day, I have to wait, if I want it or not.
I want to show you some examples for how we can break patterned ways of thinking – and open our creativity:
- Do things with the left hand if you are naturally right-handed (and vice versa); brushing your teeth, combing your hair, shaving and so on.
- Drive to work by an alternative route.
- Eat only when your body tells you it is hungry.
- Pretend you are a tourist in your own city and visit all the sites you would recommend to visitors.
- Experiment eating foods you thing you don’t like, but have never tried.
- Ask your kid(s) (or young relatives) what they would like to do for a weekend outing. You may be surprised. Just do it!
- Drive under the speed limit for one week. If you exceed the speed limit, even “by accident”, pay your kid(s) or friend an amount of money for each infraction.
- Create one day each week that is unplanned and unscheduled – then create that day “moment-by-moment” as it evolves.
- Paint a picture or write a poem, create a story – you never know what you are capable of until you try.
These examples may seem childish or somehow stupid. But I recommend: Try to do some or start with one. And do it again and again for some weeks.
I’m curious about your experiences.
