Creativity

 

What is it?

• Turning new/imaginative ideas into reality 
• Ability to perceive the world in new and different ways.
• Connected to divergent thinking (creative solutions you could find for a problem)

How to become more creative?

1. Put in the work
2. Let your mind wander (Day dreaming with purpose)
3. Practice remote associations (brainstorming/jotting down ideas)
4. Go outside (time in nature)
5. Revisit your creative ideas

(Crowe 2019)

Q. What are the benefits of divergent (creative solutions for a problem) and convergent (reaching one well defined solution for a problem) thinking? Are there downsides?