Playing the Piano, Coloring With Blue, Daydreaming and More
Scientist say that beholding the color blue could make people more creative.
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Difficult times often lead to great innovations - after all, necessity is the mother of invention.
So, if you are feeling the pinch in your purse, now is the time to capitalise on your creativity. New Scientists’ Alison Motluck explains how.
1. Embrace Your Inner Grouch
It’s hard to stay upbeat when your penny-pinching bosses are counting paper clips and coffee grains, but here’s some good news: workplace discontent may just be a vast, untapped source of creativity.
2. Let Your Mind Wander
A wandering mind may allow your brain to search more widely for connections that could trigger a “eureka” moment.
3. Play the Piano
Music may provide more than just a brief respite from life’s stresses – it may help you to think with both sides of your brain at once.
4.Color Your World Blue
It may be nothing more than an association with big skies and the open seas, but beholding the color blue makes you more creative.
5. Seek Out Creative Company
The best ideas are forged not in moments of solitary genius, but during exchanges with trusted colleagues.
6. Live Abroad
The idea that living abroad spurs creativity has been in the popular psyche for eons – and now science backs up the idea.
7. Be More Playful
When times get tough, many people turn serious, but some researchers believe that horsing around may be better in the long run than hunkering down.
8. Raise a Glass
Many of the most creative pursuits – jazz, for instance, and poetry – are associated with heavy boozing, but can a dram or two really help?
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The correlation between creativity and addictive behaviors is just that, correlational - boozing (and drugs) make you stupid and dull.
All the best from Brighton,
Mark
I would play the piano but i don’t know, i had never the chance to learn it. So to become creative i’ll just take a moment to relax and listening for someone else singing on piano.
Nice list!
Feedback, feedback, feedback! When I feel as though my creativity is stalled I ask for feedback from people. I try to ask them what they think of my latest works and what they think about me in general. Their ideas and feedback mixed with my desire to create, makes for a more creative Ralph.
Love these lists, actually they gives us some load of creativity too.
My #9 is “write the code”, this gives me more oppotrunities to think creative.
Tim.