Saturday, July 30, 2011

Creativity - Starting Point of Innovation

Our mind is the most powerful tool we can use for creativity.It is unlike computers and even more powerful than the best super computers:  consisting of billion neurons with trillions of connections and permutations.  Here are some  of the tips I have read regarding enchancing our creativity:

l.  Be a child again.  Live curious.  The Nat Geo channel keeps repeating this on their channel.  Question everything. Be interested in a lot of things around you.

2. Observe, observe, observe.

3.  Learn, learn, learn, from you experiences especially from the bad ones.  Bad experiences are great teachers. What piss you off give rise to new ideas.

4. Practice. exercise your mind by reading (this is even a preventive measure for Alzheimer disease). Read read read.

5.Exercise.  When you have difficulty in thinking, take a walk or jog.  Go to a gymn.  When you exercise, your body secretes endorphins which stimulate creative thinking.

6.  Brainstorm with a group. Many minds are better than one.

7. Travel.  You can learn so much from your travel.  You can benchmark from other places.  A lot.

8.  Get out of the box.  Learn from outside the experience and your comfort zone.  Learn from other industries

9.  Go to the web. There is so much to benchmark from the web.

l0.  Enrol in a night school.  Join a hobby group.  Join a web group


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