It is ambitious if not impossible to measure creativity and everyone is creative in his or her way.
However, there are steps you can take to explicit your creativity more frequently and more effectively. You will need to execute to making creativity a practice.
Step1: Allow yourself to be different even if it isn’t immediately accepted to be different from what is considered to be normal. Do not be afraid to ask questions and share your thoughts, you may never know if your ideas are seen as creative by others. Thinking creatively is about being outside the box. Let go of any notions that your ideas will be graded or considered. Right or wrong speak your mind especially if you think that it’s something you would like to share with others.
Step2: Take some time every day to be creative. Creativity is not simply in a note, it is something that you learn every day and train every day. No novel, painter, filmmaker, musician ever made a career by simply sitting down and letting the ideas flow. They worked at their learning, their craft and coming up with creative ideas every day. Creative thought only comes during creative work, so get working at first. Set aside 20mins each day to work on your craft, you can build up to larger time commitment as you have your skills. Even if you don’t want to work in the creative field practicing creative art like painting, music, etc. everyday can help you increase your creativity in everyday life.
Step3: Be curious, look up anything you don’t know, read books or learn skills that have always interested you. Strike up conversations with people whose stories you want to know. The more ingredients you store in your head the better creative connections you can make in your life.
Step4: Get enough rest, food and water. If you are tired there is little point in trying to squeeze out something creative from your head. Fundamental ideas may be less likely to pop into your head. When you’re drained take a nap or tea break to recharge. You can think better when your mind is fresh and you should be able to come up with more creative ideas easily. Your brain cells need glucose or to work well try sweets, chocolates or some snacks.
Step5: Absorb a diverse, array of influence including those not related to your field. When you’re deeply involved with myriad things you enable yourself to become truly creative. Creativity is about connecting unexpected gaps, for example, taking impressions from science and architecture into art. The Beatles are partially famous because of their ability to bring Eastern influences and instruments like the sitter into western rock and roll, the faint novelist Davis Foster Wallace wrote his Masterwork eternal, Jest after years of studying tennis, Drug addiction, Math and the Science of light and optics. Travel is a great way to absorb new influences, go somewhere new and explore your mind for inspiration. If you can’t afford to go far, go for a walk and jot down what you see here. Alternatively, draw inspiration from a book.
Step6: Relax, you will not have creative ideas every minute of every day even but that is ok. When you try to force creativity you can completely block it. Don’t kill yourself for bad ideas since they are a neutral part of the creative process. Just keep trying to be creative each day and the good ideas will eventually come.
