How to increase your creativity

Crisis of ideas - this is a normal and natural phenomenon. But how to overcome the crisis and boost their creativity (a terrible word "creativity" is already knocking at your Door) - This question often arises before the people of creative professions: designers, interior designers, bloggers, photographers. Draydidzher Jordan (Jordan Driediger), entrepreneur, speaker at many conferences, and author of the blog writer from Toronto, as well as the head of his own company DM2 Studios LLC, has compiled a list of ways to return and increase your creativity, if you suddenly came the "stagnation".

Creativity - our natural component, an indispensable feature of the human brain, creativity is given to us by nature. The result is an expression in the outer world of our inner world. But on the way to self-expression and new heights can only be a barrier 2: external and internal. Around and break these barriers as possible, and here's how to do it.

Find your inspiration

Find your "muse", a source of inspiration and a stimulus for creativity - one of the most important tasks. It seems that all this is obvious, but you'd be surprised how few people pay attention to the search for its source of inspiration, and how few people are able to say what it is that inspires them.

Inspiration and incentive for "creativity" can be found in nature, in music, in others, in his memoirs, and even in specific situations of life. If you look for something that inspires you, then you do not have to wait when you visit the inspiration: you can whip up a "creative" is always just refer to it its source.

Pay attention and notice what makes you cry out loud or to myself, "Yes, I want to do it!", "I have an idea!", "Yes, it's wonderful!" Do you have a source of inspiration?

Surround yourself with all that close to perfection

Favorite music the author of this post discovered not only because listening to a lot of talented musicians, but also because it started to listen to what they listen to, whose work like that. It always happens: a good creative people draw inspiration from the great, and the great landmark and inspired by the works of geniuses.

Study and surround yourself with samples of great, high quality art, music, great books and especially - wonderful people. All of them will help you to create your own pattern, a kind of "bar", quality standards and levels, you want to achieve, creating your own music, videos, blogs, developing a design, or doing some other creativity. Select it, and those who have "pushed forward".

There is nothing wrong to copy and learn from the experiences and high quality samples in your field. In the words of Pablo Picasso (later used to say Steve Jobs): "Good artists copy, great artists - steal." I will support and agree with Picasso only one thing: to copy and "steal" worth successful methods, and not finished products and products of other people.

Create! Be creative constantly

What was the turning point, transformed the gloomy recluse homebody and Edgar Allan Poe in a wonderful writer and an inspiring example for millions? He began to write. Then you will never be able to grow as a creative person if their creativity not to use, not the "be creative". Try something original, something new, try on the role in life that requires creativity, and practice these roles constantly.

"Creative" a thriving (even if the first result of your creative trial and will not be so, as you would expect) and will develop, or wither. It is necessary to move through trial and repeated attempts. Behind every great canvas in an art gallery - dozens of sketches, sketches crossed out and rejected options, which you do not know, you do not see.

All the great men of the past - from da Vinci to Edison - started again to do after the first attempt failed. What distinguishes these creative people from all the others? They worked on their product / project as long as the result does not really coincide with the way that they are kept in mind.

Cross the border in his work, combine different

Author of the post as a designer, writer, and musician noted for myself that creative quality growth is possible only with the development of their skills in parallel in different areas. Improving your skills as a musician and as a designer, you are improving and their creative skills as a designer, and improving skills and creative professionals seeking the best results you will achieve growth of communication skills in contact with audience.

Have you noticed how all further success in life people are achieved through the use of rules that help them succeed in the beginning of life's journey? Successful athlete in business is guided by the rules that have helped him to succeed in the sport. Biologist attentive to details and rules, not only in their work, but also in photography as a hobby, etc. Their knowledge and skills in one area activities to apply their creativity and build in another area: the skills can always be applied in a new way and to move into another realm activity.

Have fun in moderation

Earlier we talked about how important it is to find a source of inspiration. It is important to find his "muse". A lack of "Muses" we often replace... entertainment (by the way, in English, these words are similar: muse and amusement; the author says that the lack of ideas and inspiration, we just entertainment and replace). Yes, people need entertainment to all, they can have a positive impact on your creativity. But these kinds of visual entertainment as aypad favorite movie or TV series on TV should serve as a way to expand your own imagination, not replace it.

TV, for example, all of you no creativity and ideas requires not believe - then watch the expression on people's faces when they watch TV carefully. Their eyes are wide open, and the mind is "off." Series or TV program "make" all the work for you, they are for you to create a picture of an imaginary world, they are doing for you. Movies and TV shows can be a stimulus to new creative formats, but can not replace them.

To train and develop their creative potential, note books, audio books, music as a way to entertain yourself. All they stimulate your imagination (this is often the stimulus we need in today's world, where everything is crammed with images and so little room for the imagination).

Pay attention to yourself and your health

If you work in an industry where creativity - is the foundation of all, you probably know that a couple hours of concentrated work and inspiration, you can do a lot more than a day labored work. Distractions can kill the entire creative process on the vine - whether it be people talking, environment, noise, objects or circumstances. How distracting ailments! Therefore, take care of yourself, pay attention to your body, try to be healthy and regularly to restore order in the workplace. To preserve the creative quality over quantity, so be sure that the house work and your own body does not become a barrier on your way to success.

Ignore the critics and detractors

In the work necessary component - expression. But all that is created by the artist, designer, musician, journalist, writer to show a wide audience, puts himself under attack: it is open to attack critics, crowds and idle speculation. In business, in sports, in art and in life in general, you will be faced with a barrage of criticism that can break you and destroy your faith in our strength, with those who feel that they can assert themselves, but in every way trying to "trample" you. Be open to constructive comments and work on a (by the way, you can himself become the most ruthless critic); but ignore those who just "trolls" you let their negativity will serve as a motivation: history does not remember the names those who attacked with reviews and derogatory reviews on people creating something new and truly great. History remembers innovation, creativity and the ability to create the power of thought inspiration for others. Therefore, inspire and create!