July 5th 2007
Personal Development
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A few months I did a mini series focusing on getting creative. The first part covered the necessary tools required, while the second part looked at locations you can visit to encourage creative thinking. However, as someone recently pointed out, all these tips helped to encourage existing creative thought, but they didn’t help you to think creatively in the first place. So, to address that I have decided to write part three:
- Think big. Don’t constrain yourself to little, minute details. Come up with huge, crazy ideas. Worry about bringing down the scale and sensibility of your ideas later on in the development process.
- Look for inspiration in everything you see and hear. It all has the potential to trigger a aha! moment - even the most mundane things - so don’t rule them out.
- Run with all your thoughts. All it takes to trigger a flurry of creative ideas is one thought. Before you know it, you can end up with a spider’s web of ideas.
- Give yourself time. It’s difficult to think creatively under pressure as you don’t have the time to engage with your ideas. You need to give creative ideas time to develop in your mind.
- Don’t box yourself in. This is the ultimate advice for any creative thinking and it runs through every piece of advice I have given throughout this series. Don’t be narrow minded to ideas, don’t cramp yourself into a small box room, don’t use a tiny notepad for writing your ideas down.
