{"id":3302,"date":"2010-06-10T21:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2010-06-10T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:50:17","slug":"how-can-you-be-more-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/how-can-you-be-more-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you be more creative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity is like getting fit, often you need to nurture it to be more creative.<\/p>\n<p>At a basic level, creativity is creating new links between existing ideas. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creativity\">Wikipedia definition<\/a> is excellent:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So how can you be more creative? It&#8217;s all about creating <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/patterns\/\">new patterns<\/a>, but here are some ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mix up your inputs: how &amp; where do you absorb knowledge, new ideas, conversations?<\/li>\n<li>Watch different tv shows<\/li>\n<li>Meet<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/the-crazies\/\"> the crazies<\/a> (new people)<\/li>\n<li>Wear different clothes<\/li>\n<li>TRAVEL! Travel to places where people live completely different lifestyles<\/li>\n<li>Read lots of books, and different kinds of books, include magazines, blogs in that mix<\/li>\n<li>Listen to podcasts, radio, interviews, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.nz\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBcQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2F&amp;ei=2ZQRTLWkGYzMNZCvscgF&amp;usg=AFQjCNHTfChqkS7uPIXTrb8PYhSV3578Fw\">TED videos <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Drive a different way to work, everyday, or walk a different path (or cycle, bus etc)<\/li>\n<li>Express yourself! Start a blog, do some painting, take up an artful sport, photography. \u00a0You don&#8217;t have to share it with the world just do it.<\/li>\n<li>Learn a new language<\/li>\n<li>Attend different conferences, meetups, network &amp; meet people<\/li>\n<li>Do the YES experiment, say yes to all social opportunities which pop up for a period of time<\/li>\n<li>Learn new skills! Take an art class, join a kayak club<\/li>\n<li>Question everything, you&#8217;d be surprised what you learn and how quick<\/li>\n<li>Invest in alone time, reflection, time to be quiet and relax<\/li>\n<li>Do tastings! Of food, art, culture<\/li>\n<li>Get a journal, draw ideas down, write them, scribble, tear our pages, stick them on the wall. \u00a0The mere act of pen to paper stimulates new thoughts &amp; action, pushing through your existing ones.<\/li>\n<li>Share ideas! Let them go and get new\/better ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go, try one of them, get creative! If you think you&#8217;re boring, I bet you&#8217;re not, we&#8217;re all creative in our own ways &#8211; just give something a go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity is like getting fit, often you need to nurture it to be more creative. At a basic level, creativity is creating new links between existing ideas. The Wikipedia definition is excellent: &#8220;Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[326,625,835],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}