Creative! How to be creative and generate ideas

Often creative folks are told and come across these familiar phrases tossed “give me your best idea, best design till date, when can u give me, I would like to see it other way around.”

But how realistic is it to be creative on demand? If you were asked to come up with a worthwhile idea for a book, or painting, or project, right now, could you do it?

It’s all in our head. Yes it sounds simple but it is the fact. Yet Y do we struggle? And some others appear to be capable of doing it so effortlessly.

Creativity is a way of thinking. It’s something each of us is born with the capacity to use. We regularly do use it without realizing. Because creativity is way of thinking, it exists entirely in our brains. We make various connections within our brain and they change and grow accordingly with us when we age.

We start to focus on certain aspect which influences us through friends, parents and many other outer factors, the more we see and learn from various kinds of things, places ,people and experience them the more influential ideas start to form.

So how possibly generate creative ideas on demand?

This is where timeless creative practices come into play. Initially it requires you to actively pursue the unknown and force ideas and their changes in your mind.

Ideas readily come to those who are able to imagine changing any aspect of an idea without giving much thought whether you will fail or is it the good one. In short: “Do not worry about the end results”.

When it comes to being creative, the more ideas you have, the more likely you are to come up with great ones.

This is true from countless scientific researches:

“Studies from the University of California Davis and MIT have shown that groups who produce a large amount of bad ideas also tend to produce the most amounts of good ideas as well.”

If you all just remember your childhood days and think of situation how we used to make so many things out of a lying paper around. U could make a boat, a simple flying plane, a pillow, a mini pointed telescope, and cut those paper to pieces and join them back, so many...Why? Because our mind was curious to know many things, how does it look like if it’s put this way? Y does it look like this? All this without thinking whether it looks good or bad.

This feeling slowly evaporates but some people get addicted to this kind of thought and grow along with it to become creative genius.

So why do many of us struggle to be creative on the spot?

One possible reason is the stress and judgmental attitude towards oneself and the abilities.

When we feel pressured we psychologically put ourselves into focusing so sharply on the task that we fail to step back and see what’s possible by breaking the individual attributes of the task itself.

One easy way to break the psychological constraints is to turn your task into a game of play. Play allows us to remove the stress of the real thing going on.

 “Our mind and brain are similar like any computers where the data need to be archived and backed up so to put additional data in there” ,Hence writing down all the ideas which come up in your mind helps you think better in other ways, keeping in mind not to have any  pre-conceived notions and judgments.

Initially this is going to be tough on your mind, but they say practice makes u perfect.

If you feel that you’re struggling to come up with more ideas, then consider what might be missing (Curiosity, energy, awareness, etc.)

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