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5 simple activities that will boost your creative thinking
Your mind produces thoughts like your heart produces beats
Pretty powerful, isn’t it? If we want to get technical, the heart “beats” the brain by a few thousand beats, but given that we likely produce 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day, it seems pretty clear that we humans think a lot.
Among this great number of thoughts, I’m curious to know:
- How many of them could potentially be life-changing ideas?
- How many do simply get lost in the ether? Why does that happen?
- How can we consciously bring more of them to life so we can be more innovative and creative?
I know that being a full-time designer and part-time writer myself, creativity is something I can’t quite have enough of. That’s the main reason why I’m finding myself to be on a quest to answer questions like that, and why I’m approaching creativity as a skill we can all learn.
While I think I’m far from having any of the answers nailed down, a few months ago I realised that some of the answers on “how to be more creative” have been right under my nose for a long time, and they turned out to be simple habits I could implement in my day-to-day life.
Building a creative thinking habit is a fairly simple process, but it’s neither easy nor linear. For instance, in the last few months, I slowly built some daily habits and completely screwed up and fell out of them, so that I could restart doing them. Because at the end of the day, we all fuck up at times.
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep” — Scott Adams
Here the 5 activities that I personally experimented with in the course of the last year that allowed me to get more of my creative thinking flowing. Because consistency is essential in this, I’m going to point the easiest way to get started too. I got your back.
1) Sit down and think
