The Creative Process: The Creative Habit

In a commencement ship on this serial almost the creative process, nosotros looked at the atmospheric condition yous bespeak for creativity. In this post, nosotros focus on a long-term means to find to a greater extent than creative solutions to enquiry questions.

Some people mightiness endure naturally to a greater extent than creative than others, roughly people mightiness seem to relish to endure creating things as well as ideas all the fourth dimension as well as roughly people mightiness intend that inventiveness is but non for them. Well I intend inventiveness is something yous tin develop over time.


Here are a few ways yous tin purpose to foster "The Creative Habit", as well as prepare your heed to intend out of the box:

1. Creativity over a whole spectrum

Pick upwards an artistic hobby, start blogging as well as journaling, sketch, larn interested inwards fashion, arts, literature or anything that helps yous interruption out of the bubble of your regular thinking. Debate politics as well as read upwards on history. Get your greyness affair working!

When yous larn used to divert your thoughts as well as focus on other topics, pulling ideas together yesteryear looking at them from a dissimilar perspective becomes easier equally well.

2. Daily creativity

Creativity comes when yous larn inwards a habit, when yous prepare it on a daily basis. Try to interruption out of your enquiry rhythm out on a daily basis.

You tin for example schedule activities (music classes, photography classes, ikon workshop...) that force yous to conduct keep fourth dimension to endure creative. Or yous tin alternative upwards a challenge, similar a 365 photography project, or endeavor to write a fix of poems inside a few months.

3. List ideas 

When yous are solving a occupation inwards research, don't forthwith drib dead alongside your commencement idea. Try to sit down downwards as well as await at the occupation from every possible angle. Make a listing of possible approaches, as well as notice that 1 time yous start thinking almost dissimilar possibilities to solve a problem, yous volition start generating to a greater extent than ideas on how to approach it differently. Again, it's all almost the mindset, as well as knowing that yous don't conduct keep to come upwards *snap* alongside a solution, but tin sit down as well as reflect.

4. Mindmap ideas

Mindmapping itself involves sketching as well as drawing, as well as is inwards essence a creative procedure equally well. When mapping out ideas, endeavor to explore all the tentacles of your mindmap spider spider web as well as explore them but a piddling deeper to endeavor as well as seep out roughly additional thoughts as well as ideas.

5. Courses on creative thinking

If you're completely stuck, or can't detect a means to intend inwards creative ways, know that at that spot are courses out at that spot that are peculiarly aimed at creative thinking for scientists. I haven't followed whatever of these courses, as well as then I can't come upwards up alongside a recommendation (I'm the sort of soul alongside to a greater extent than ideas than fourth dimension to develop them, as well as then a lot of bubbling is ever going on upwards inwards my mind). The NWO inwards the Netherlands used to offering classes, it'd endure practiced if they'd convey them back!

How create yous develop your creative habit?