Every person can develop creative thinking. Moreover, it needs to be developed! After all, our whole life is creativity. The development of creativity in the modern world is necessary for successful work, active study, and productive building of relationships with people. How to unleash and develop your creativity and creativity? Find out from this article.
Defining boundaries
To develop creativity, you need to go beyond the usual boundaries of comfort. Determine how tight your imagination and worldview is. Your imagination is probably orderly right now, that is, it is limited and dictated by upbringing, socialization, family, media, and so on.
To understand visually the work of the brain according to the principle of well-established circuits, do the following:
- lift your right leg and move it clockwise;
- raise your right hand and, along with the movements of your leg, try to draw a six in the air with your hand.
Hard? Yes. The actions of the arm and leg try to be the same. Likewise, your thinking does not see new schemes and does not know how to move according to other non-built-in schemes. But if you practice regularly, then everything will become real.
Realize the Limitations of Imagination
Keep a creative diary. Before each new case, refer to him. The sequence of actions is as follows:
- Imagine a desired and intended creative goal. What unpleasant thoughts and feelings, anxieties, fears arise along with this? Does this affect your confidence and interfere with action? Write down each item in detail.
- Answer the following questions:
- Are these your thoughts (fears, fears, worries, opinions) or someone else?
- Are these not childhood experiences that are high time to be left in the past? For example, failures in school often carry over into adulthood. And although a person has long since become different, successful, confident, failure from the past continues to interfere.
- Do you want to get rid of it all for a purpose? Is it worth it?
The answers to these questions will be the beginning of the development of creative thinking. Even answering them, without noticing it yourself, you already think independently and creatively, you realize the possibility of choice, you yourself find different alternatives and compare them with each other.
Dream
In psychology, there is the concept of creative intelligence. They began to talk about it not so long ago, but its significance is becoming more and more noticeable. Creative intelligence is different from our reason and logic. He is responsible for the perception of the world, other people, his own and others’ feelings and emotions.
Creative intelligence feeds imagination, imagination in turn leads to dreams, hope allows us to suggest a path from reality to dream. Creative thinking allows you to bring this to life. So dream. Feed your creative intelligence.
To encourage creative thinking and imagination to be active:
- Retire, relax (any relaxation technique will do).
- Imagine the smells of your goal (we can talk about someone’s perfume, country-specific spices, printing ink, anything related to your creative plans). Smells stimulate memory, its most distant corners of activity. As a result, in response to an imaginary smell, a very real plan of action and a set of tools may come to your mind.
- In the same way, analyze in your imagination your idea for taste, sound, tactile sensations.
Unleash your subconscious
The previous exercise allows you to look into the depths of the subconscious. There are no boundaries, there are no laws of logic, nothing is prescribed. The main difference between the subconscious and consciousness is that the first takes into account and remembers all incoming information, consciousness filters it through the prism of beliefs, norms, values, and so on. If you want to find new mechanisms for seeing the world – release your subconscious. Any self-regulation technique is suitable for this.
Analyze
It is important to analyze not only your current situation, but also the perceived success of the planned business. Imagine that your creative goal has been achieved. Write down your condition in a diary according to the following plan:
- What does my self-confidence say?
- What does my self-realization say?
- What is my inner child saying?
- What does my mind and logic say?
- What do my emotions and feelings say?
- What do the other facets of me say?
Record these feelings. They will allow you to see many ideas at once.
Character through song
Make it a rule to regularly stimulate your creativity with this method:
- Describe the character of a character from a book or a person in real life through music, smells.
- Imagine what kind of animal, plant, figure the character could be.
- Match music to various everyday situations.
Logic and creativity
Analyze the situation regularly from two perspectives: creative intelligence and general intelligence. Choose a variety of situations: from everyday conversation in your life to historical events that are written about in books. Evaluate the development of events, the content of the situation and the outcome from two different positions: logic and creativity.
Create every day
Write a list of creative trivia. Ideas can be found on the Internet, ask friends. That is, we are talking about any handmade. Try what you haven’t tried. Today there are many creative kits:
- drawing on T-shirts;
- making pillows and toys;
- coloring by numbers;
- cross stitching.
Do not forget about the applications that we were taught in kindergarten. Do one creative little thing every day. Do not forget to build long-term prospects and plans at the same time.
Compose
At random, take words, sentences or pictures from the book and compose a story, a fairy tale from them. This exercise will help you not only build new connections between neurons, but also allow you to better understand yourself. When we come up with stories, our subconscious mind works first. The content of creative products reflects our true motives, actual needs, values, worldview.
Brainstorm
Make it a rule to brainstorm any situation and problem. Try not to give out automated decision mechanisms at once, but analyze. Put forward and write down any, even seemingly insane ideas. Perhaps the final idea will consist of some crazy and quite real one. Very often, something new and creative lurks at the junction of two commonplace and common things.
For greater effect, it is recommended to combine all the methods of developing creative potential given in the article. And of course, remember that the content of the exercises is not so important as their regularity.
