Ice Box Frames
7 Ways to Make Your Brain Storm
For many creativity simply means being able to produce large numbers of ideas quickly, with the expectation that some will be useful. But for those who deeply desire to be considered as "creative," any challenge creativity is also seen as an opportunity to fail and be "creative."
This can quickly produce a kind of stage fright. stage fright associated with fear, worry, often self-punishing, and can result in frostbite.
Naturally that inhibits the flow of ideas, producing more than stage fright.
It's a circle cycle.
But it can be brought around to a calmer, more productive state, where ideas are easy, and in constant flux.
All what to do then is record them as they come, take a breath, then choose between them, and further details of the chosen few.
But how do you get?
Try these methods:
1 "Do not judge creativity while creating
Mental state rules. His mental state, ie. If you're feeling creative, or even neutral, you're in the right mind frame. The neutrality I am talking about is a non-critical, which is not constantly asking if you are creative or creative.
So the ideas have merit.
In fact you are not aware that you are thinking at all.
Thinking about thinking, which involves being critical and
stops the flow faster than anything else I know. Let your brainstorming be an unjudged flow. Leave classification for later.
If one judges now, stop playing in your head right and move into your analytical left brain. Good for judging, editing, polishing. Not so great for producing a wide range of alternatives.
2-Remember that you have already produced many ideas in his life.
Count the times in a day he had an idea. You'll be surprised how many there are. Big ideas or small ideas? Smart or stupid ideas? Do not categorize it that way. Or at all. Not yet.
To think that ideas are the ideas. Its purpose is to create more flow.
Creativity is a habit, and producing a lot of ideas that gives a good chance to find a great one in the bunch. The more we strive to churn out in large numbers, the more your mind is trained to think that way, and quickly!
There is another reason why "more is better" is true, in creative activities: ideas, even fragments containing discarded think big you can use hand-selected winners.
Example: A team of advertising agency was looking for a surprising gift for a new customer. Came with the delivery of ice cream do-it-yourself sundae setup to the client's office for an afternoon of fun.
Delivering an experience If it sounded good to the CEO of an agency, but because the client was a sophisticated business, which replaces the ice cream bar for a tasting of caviar. Soon after, President the client company awarded additional assignments to the agency.
He did, said, "because they really understand us."
3-Make a point to appreciate the creativity Wherever you find it
Creativity is everywhere, but not always beautiful, or cold, or in an art museum. Sometimes it is the way Intelligent something that is displayed in a store. Or an apt phrase spoken by a colleague.
Instead of feeling disappointed that I did not think it up, embrace it. Imagine how the person may have come with that thought. In fact, reading books, creative types who discuss topics like "how I thought of that idea."
You learn tips and techniques, and into the mindset of creativity.
Children can be our best teachers because their special perspective exhibits a rare view of the world. And they are not ashamed or not aware of its uniqueness.
If your three year old son saw a pregnant woman and whispered: "Mommy, this lady seems to have swallowed a beach ball!" be proud or ashamed?
It happened to my friend, and applauded his child's creative thinking (and only later asked him to speak more softly). Of course, it helped that mom laughed until she cried.
4-Try Creative easily reactivated from today
Noticing and appreciating the creativity of others can inspire you and prime the pump.
Visit the museum Art in the day off. Since you paid nothing, you're good to go in half an hour. Do not expect to see much. Just take what you can and let it feed your mind. You can return next week and see if you like.
If you are in a walking city, walk as much as possible, watch the people and the surroundings. Play from time to time, and listen to the words used to express thoughts and perspectives.
Which of your friends thinks very differently from you? Many of us choose friends who think like us. It's a relief, but does not always have the chest.
Make an effort to know people unlike you. Stimulation, even when inconvenient, lets take a look outside their usual worldview, but broadens its scope and the updates of his thought. (It is more intelligent!)
5-Watch Less TV nights a week
Choose shows that foster new thoughts, or show you the unexpected: situations, ideas or people you rarely encounter. You can also select only quality entertainment. Both are good food for the mind and a way to keep in touch with the best offers of contemporary media.
You already know what junk food, so you can determine what is "unwanted thoughts" are. Enjoyment of them only rarely and mostly to know what the audience is watching.
6-Click on trends to boost your Ideas
A direct approach to get ideas would just copy what exists: if everyone is buying small cars, which also buy a small car. If you are in the car design business, his company designs another small car.
"Trend-tapping" is an indirect approach. You can, for example, click on the phenomenon of child car indirectly:
If you are a manufacturer of luggage, you could design luggage that fits easily into small logs.
If you're a toy designer, you can produce games that children can easily play in smaller cars. Perhaps the board is smaller game and the players do not have to travel too far to play.
If you design clothing, design a bag inspired by a hat I saw you. Same for a media campaign, a soup again, a way to stimulate interest in a medical center.
Whatever your occupation, you can using this approach.
You are hitchhiking in the spirit or atmosphere of a product, company or individual.
Ask yourself what trend outside my field I can take my job?
If Mac created a car, what will?
What if Porsche created a restaurant?
If Harvard designed a curriculum level, what will?
If (a person currently in the media) were in charge of (any task that is currently working), how s / he handle my new project?
7-Borrowing Techniques Improvisation actors
Improv actors really know how to take an idea and run with it, quickly and
regularly. If you want to know how to produce a lot of ideas quickly, these are the people to model.
I discovered this when I was a creative director in advertising and took many kinds of improvisation. Soon my group ran brainstorming sessions around this model.
Surprising? Not really.
"Improvisation"-ing (which, of course, comes from the word "Improvisation") is a kind of brainstorming by which takes the information / situation given to her, and stay within that world, "" creates a scene.
actors are instructed to never deny any act or feeding them line by another actor, but to go ahead with it.
If an actor tells another: "So what is your husband doing?" the second actor would not say "But I'm alone." Instead enters reality she has a husband.
Valid answers can be as varied as "He's going," It's making pizza "or" Only was killed "because they move forward the scene. This type of response is called" Yes and "
Creativity requires a "Yes and" response, also because it opens the door to more opportunities that build on each other and allow movement.
The opposite of "Yes and" is "No, but "and brings the action to a standstill.
If "How's your husband?" gets the response "I have a husband," not there are many places to go, but a stage on the amnesia (Ho-hum.) "Yes," and "generates hundreds of possibilities. I bet you make a list of twenty without even trying.
When you want to be creative, or to encourage creativity in all around you, always reach for "Yes, y." Learn how generative and life affirming that can be in all areas of your life.
Final Thought
If you had to pick a technique you just learned to use in his current project, which technique you use, and what the new thought (s) might arise? © 2008 by Wendy Lapidus-Saltz. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Wendy Lapidus-Saltz, “The Optimizer,” is a mind coach and creativity expert who combines a corporate background with knowledge of the subconscious mind’s natural abilities to invent, heal, and produce unexpected success in all areas of life. Read her at
http://www.hypno-attraction.com
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http://www.nonsmoker4life.com
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