An exercise for nearly instantly increasing your creativity:
- When faced with a challenge you’d like to apply creativity to, come up with 10 ideas for it. This works for anything from creating new business ideas, ways to meet new people, how to transition in a song, new dishes to cook, anything.
- If you struggle to come up with 10 ideas, bump the requirement up to 20.
Creativity is, more often than not, about getting out of our own way. Creativity is allowing for the good, the bad, and the absurd until something new and authentic is generated.
Can’t come up with any solutions? Then come up with 20.