Activating your creative brain requires practice, especially if it's been sitting in the attic of your life, gathering dust. Luckily, creativity is so fundamental and human that some simple exercises can get you revved up and ready to move forward with a project that really motivates you.
So here are a few exercises you can easily do for a few minutes in your spare time.
2. Choose a very different name for yourself. Figure out what Other Name would dress/speak/do. Why does the name make such a big difference?
3. Pick any two objects in front of you. How could you make a new thing by combining them?
You get the idea: mix things up! You can make up your own exercises, or do them with someone else. Smile while you do them, and you will create a positive feedback loop that encourages your brain to spend more time being creative.
Remember what your creative brain does: it reaches out into the world, perceives it, strives to understand and integrate what it learns, and then plans how to use that information. What it doesn't do is take ordinary things for granted.
So here are a few exercises you can easily do for a few minutes in your spare time. 1. Take a pencil (or something else you look at without really seeing) and come up with six questions about the pencil itself. They can't be anything you already know the answer to!
2. Choose a very different name for yourself. Figure out what Other Name would dress/speak/do. Why does the name make such a big difference?
3. Pick any two objects in front of you. How could you make a new thing by combining them?
You get the idea: mix things up! You can make up your own exercises, or do them with someone else. Smile while you do them, and you will create a positive feedback loop that encourages your brain to spend more time being creative.
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