{"id":58091,"date":"2024-05-17T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/a8y8mk7\/ten-ways-to-free-your-creativity-infographic\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:46:46","slug":"ten-ways-to-free-your-creativity-infographic","status":"publish","type":"product-content","link":"https:\/\/www.mindtools.com\/a8y8mk7\/ten-ways-to-free-your-creativity-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Free Your Creativity Infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div class=\"ew-infographic\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-filename=\"Ten Surprising Creativity_FINAL.jpg\" data-s3key=\"infographic-74cef51c-1eb3-4cce-98df-0d0f0f9726cf.jpg\" data-teasertranscriptkey=\"\" data-transcriptkey=\"transcript-6290e0a5-c070-470a-9aed-8e54dfdc2651.txt\" src=\"https:\/\/nova-live-content.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/public\/infographic-74cef51c-1eb3-4cce-98df-0d0f0f9726cf.jpg\"\/><a class=\"ew-infographic-transcript\" href=\"https:\/\/nova-live-content.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/public\/transcript-6290e0a5-c070-470a-9aed-8e54dfdc2651.txt\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Download transcript<\/a><\/div>Ten Surprising, Shocking and Strange Ways to Free Your Creativity. Seventy five percent of people think they\u2019re not living up to their creative potential. [1] Sixty percent of CEOs named creativity as the most important leadership quality. [2] Anyone can be creative. You don\u2019t have to come up with brand new ideas, just make new connections between existing things. Unconscious restrictions, preconceptions and fear prevent your brain from working creativity. So here are ten unusual ways to free your mind and unlock your creativity. One. Question everything. You get ideas when you ask yourself simple questions. The most important of the questions is just, What if. [3] Question everything around you and let your mind wander with the answers. They can lead to interesting places. Two. Doodle. Doodling activates neurological networks in your brain, encouraging you to think more creatively as well as increasing memory function, according to research. [4] [5] Keep a notepad to hand for drawing on while you\u2019re thinking, and encourage others to do the same in meetings. Three. Play. Google have built their head office around the idea that play encourages creativity, and they\u2019re right. Having fun switches the brain into an ideal mode for creative and insightful thought. Four. Take mini breaks. Give your brain a break. Whether a game of Candy Crush or planning your weekend, little mental holidays keep your brain from getting overworked, which kills creativity. [7] [8] Five. Dim the lights. Research has shown that darkness creates a feeling of being free from constraints and a risky, explorative processing style. [9] In other words, being less visible makes you feel free to take risks. Six. Work tired. Working when you are physically tired can encourage your easily distracted mind to wander off into new ideas. Plan your creative tasks for your low energy times of day. [10] Seven. Redecorate. Different studies have shown that the colors blue and green promote creative thought.[11] [12] Perhaps the thoughts of grass and sky make you feel free from boundaries. If you can\u2019t redecorate your office, try adding some blue and green to your own workspace. Eight. Move. Even better, actually get outside. Exercise stimulates creativity, and getting away from literal walls could help remove your mental ones. [13] Go for a walk if you\u2019re hunting for ideas, or have walking meetings instead of sitting in the boardroom. Nine. Get some noise. Silence helps you concentrate and loud noise is distracting, but moderate background noise is ideal for creative thinking. The comfortable murmur of a coffee house is even available online at Coffitivity. [14] Ten. Have a wee drink. Don\u2019t drink the coffee though. Research shows that while caffeine improves focus, a couple of alcoholic drinks are the thing for increasing creative performance, by reducing inhibitions. [15]\n<br\/>Careful though, it also reduces concentration. So take this advice in moderation. [16] \n<br\/>\n<br\/>Sources\n<br\/>Rupal Parekh, \u2018Global Study: 75% of People Think They\u2019re Not Living Up to Creative Potential\u2019 at: http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/news\/-study-75-living-creative-potential\/234302\/ (23 April 2012).\n<br\/>Austin Carr, \u2018The most Important Leadership Quality for CEOS. Creativity\u2019 at: http:\/\/fastcompany.com\/1648943\/most-important-leadership-quality-ceos-creativity (accessed 16 February 2015).\n<br\/>Neil Gaiman, \u2018Where Do You Get Your Ideas.\u2019 at: http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/p\/Cool_Stuff\/Essays\/Essays_By_Neil_Gaiman\/Where_do_you_ get_your_ideas%3F (accessed 16 February 2015).\n<br\/>Lisa Evans, \u2018How Doodling Can Make You More Successful\u2019 at: http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/232273 (19 March 2014).\n<br\/>Gwen Moran, \u2018Want More Creative and Productive Employees. Let Them Goof Off\u2019 at: http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/226919 (19 June 2013). \n<br\/>John Kounious Mark Beeman, \u2018The Aha. Moment: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight\u2019, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 18 No.4 (August 2009) p210.\n<br\/>Kate Taylor, \u2018How to Be More Creative Wherever You Work\u2019 at http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/232840 (4 April 2014).\n<br\/>Boland Jones, \u201910 Tips for Unleashing Your Creativity at Work at: http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/232656 (1 April 2014).\n<br\/>Anna Steidle and Lioba Werth, \u2018Freedom From Constraints: Darkness and Dim Illumination Promote Creativity\u2019, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Vol. 35 (September 2013) pp67- 80.\n<br\/>Belle Beth Cooper, \u201910 Surprising Ways to Transform Your Creative Thinking\u2019 at: http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3028465\/work-smart\/10-surprising-ways-to-transform-your- creative-thinking (2 April 2014).\n<br\/>R Mohta and RJ Zhu, \u2018Blue or Red. Exploring the Effect of Color on Cognitive Task Performances\u2019, Science, Vol. 323 No. 5918 (February 2009) pp 1226-1229.\n<br\/>S Lichtenfeld, AJ Elliot, MA Maier and R Pekrun, \u2018Fertile Green: Green Facilitates Creative Performance\u2019, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol 38 No.6 (June 2012) pp 784- 797.\n<br\/>Ben Waber, \u201912,000 Steps to Being More Creative at Work at: http:\/\/<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock your creativity with these surprising, shocking and strange methods in this infographic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"product-content-category":[7068],"product-content-type":[2626],"reading-time":[5124],"class_list":["post-58091","product-content","type-product-content","status-publish","hentry","product-content-category-creativity-skills-techniques","product-content-type-infographic","reading-time-2-minutes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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