20 ways to develop your imagination and creativity
Usually people associate creativity with
artists, writers and actors. However, most life situations require
creative approach and thinking out of the box. Imagination helps to
solve many problems, to achieve success in personal relationships and to
increase the productivity and profitability of the business. However,
in the development process, you can face the fact that you have run out
of ideas.
There are 20 simple ways to develop your creative skills and find new ideas from everywhere:
1. Try to write or draw with your opposite hand. Make written notes, dial phone numbers, slice meat by other hand. As you know, each arm is controlled by opposite hemisphere of your brain, so you can activate your brain in different way and see the world in other colors.
2. While placing napkins on the dining table, fold them in some unusual fancy shapes.
3. When sitting in the traffic jam, notice the license plates of nearby cars, add the numbers in your mind, square the result and then divide it by seven.
4. Cut out some pictures from magazines or newspapers and separate them from their captions. Mix them all and randomly spread captions to pictures. Do you see something interesting? Is there an idea for a new caption or a funny caricature?
5. Divide complex problems on sub-tasks and make lists of them.
6. The next time you travel into an unfamiliar city, do not bring a map. Read the traffic signs and try to determine which local resident you can ask for directions.
7. Carry a pencil and paper everywhere. While sitting on the subway, in the waiting room of your doctor, etc., try to draw everything you see, not necessarily to paint a picture for a museum. For example, sketch a coffee pot on a tissue. Draw a chair in the margin of the magazine. Try to sketch objects spatial perspective.
8. Satisfy your curiosity. If you are interested in something, search for how-tos in the internet, look in the guides, ask someone!
9. Start learning a foreign language.
10. Try new food products every fourth visit to the grocery store. Just put in your shopping cart products that you haven't bought yet.
11. Consider any advertisement in a magazine or newspaper. What would you improve in a graphic design? Come up with a new advertising slogan or suggest the better commercial name for this product.
12. Try to measure food volume with your eyes when cooking.
13. Map out your goals and make a plan of actions for the next five years. Think of something serious: your career, rearing your child, growing a garden or buying a new house.
14. Learn how to play games that require strategy, such as bridge, chess or poker.
15. Change your usual route to work. Measure the time and compare it to the time you usually spent.
16. Open the dictionary and randomly select a word. Try to make a pun, an anagram, or a point of the funny story.
17. Read as much as you can, watch movies and go to plays. Analyze the behavior of characters, try to put yourself in their shoes and think how you would behave in their situation.
18. Be attentive and sharp. Try to notice every detail, whether it is an unusual color combination on a banner advertising or a violin sound from a street musician. Observe and distinguish a variety of smells.
19. Compose tales and fables and try to illustrate them. Give real objects unrealistic features of color, shape, volume, etc.
20. Imagine what it would be like if dinosaurs, some of the plants or animals came to life again? The point of this activity is to learn how to represent something impossible and unreal. Offer it to your friends, record and compare your stories.
1. Try to write or draw with your opposite hand. Make written notes, dial phone numbers, slice meat by other hand. As you know, each arm is controlled by opposite hemisphere of your brain, so you can activate your brain in different way and see the world in other colors.
2. While placing napkins on the dining table, fold them in some unusual fancy shapes.
3. When sitting in the traffic jam, notice the license plates of nearby cars, add the numbers in your mind, square the result and then divide it by seven.
4. Cut out some pictures from magazines or newspapers and separate them from their captions. Mix them all and randomly spread captions to pictures. Do you see something interesting? Is there an idea for a new caption or a funny caricature?
5. Divide complex problems on sub-tasks and make lists of them.
6. The next time you travel into an unfamiliar city, do not bring a map. Read the traffic signs and try to determine which local resident you can ask for directions.
7. Carry a pencil and paper everywhere. While sitting on the subway, in the waiting room of your doctor, etc., try to draw everything you see, not necessarily to paint a picture for a museum. For example, sketch a coffee pot on a tissue. Draw a chair in the margin of the magazine. Try to sketch objects spatial perspective.
8. Satisfy your curiosity. If you are interested in something, search for how-tos in the internet, look in the guides, ask someone!
9. Start learning a foreign language.
10. Try new food products every fourth visit to the grocery store. Just put in your shopping cart products that you haven't bought yet.
11. Consider any advertisement in a magazine or newspaper. What would you improve in a graphic design? Come up with a new advertising slogan or suggest the better commercial name for this product.
12. Try to measure food volume with your eyes when cooking.
13. Map out your goals and make a plan of actions for the next five years. Think of something serious: your career, rearing your child, growing a garden or buying a new house.
14. Learn how to play games that require strategy, such as bridge, chess or poker.
15. Change your usual route to work. Measure the time and compare it to the time you usually spent.
16. Open the dictionary and randomly select a word. Try to make a pun, an anagram, or a point of the funny story.
17. Read as much as you can, watch movies and go to plays. Analyze the behavior of characters, try to put yourself in their shoes and think how you would behave in their situation.
18. Be attentive and sharp. Try to notice every detail, whether it is an unusual color combination on a banner advertising or a violin sound from a street musician. Observe and distinguish a variety of smells.
19. Compose tales and fables and try to illustrate them. Give real objects unrealistic features of color, shape, volume, etc.
20. Imagine what it would be like if dinosaurs, some of the plants or animals came to life again? The point of this activity is to learn how to represent something impossible and unreal. Offer it to your friends, record and compare your stories.
There are 20 simple ways to develop your creative skills and find new ideas from everywhere:
1. Try to write or draw with your
opposite hand. Make written notes, dial phone numbers, slice meat by
other hand. As you know, arm is controlled by opposite hemisphere of
your brain, so you can activate your brain in different way and see the
world in other colors.
2. While placing napkins on the dining table, fold them in some unusual fancy shapes.
3. When sitting in the traffic jam, notice the license plates of nearby cars, add the numbers in your mind, square the result and then divide it by seven.
4. Cut out some pictures from magazines or newspapers and separate them from their captions. Mix them all and randomly spread captions to pictures. Do you see something interesting? Is there an idea for a new caption or a funny caricature?
5. Divide complex problems on sub-tasks and make lists of them.
6. The next time you travel into an unfamiliar city, do not bring a map. Read the traffic signs and try to determine which local resident you can ask for directions.
7. Carry a pencil and paper everywhere. While sitting on the subway, in the waiting room of your doctor, etc., try to draw everything you see, not necessarily to paint a picture for a museum. For example, sketch a coffee pot on a tissue. Draw a chair in the margin of the magazine. Try to sketch objects spatial perspective.
8. Satisfy your curiosity. If you are interested in something, search for how-tos in the internet, look in the guides, ask someone!
9. Start learning a foreign language.
10. Try new food products every fourth visit to the grocery store. Just put in your shopping cart products that you haven't bought yet.
11. Consider any advertisement in a magazine or newspaper. What would you improve in a graphic design? Come up with a new advertising slogan or suggest the better commercial name for this product.
12. Try to measure food volume with your eyes when cooking.
13. Map out your goals and make a plan of actions for the next five years. Think of something serious: your career, rearing your child, growing a garden or buying a new house.
14. Learn how to play games that require strategy, such as bridge, chess or poker.
15. Change your usual route to work. Measure the time and compare it to the time you usually spent.
16. Open the dictionary and randomly select a word. Try to make a pun, an anagram, or a point of the funny story.
17. Read as much as you can, watch movies and go to plays. Analyze the behavior of characters, try to put yourself in their shoes and think how you would behave in their situation.
18. Be attentive and sharp. Try to notice every detail, whether it is an unusual color combination on a banner advertising or a violin sound from a street musician. Observe and distinguish a variety of smells.
19. Compose tales and fables and try to illustrate them. Give real objects unrealistic features of color, shape, volume, etc.
20. Imagine what it would be like if dinosaurs, some of the plants or animals came to life again? The point of this activity is to learn how to represent something impossible and unreal. Offer it to your friends, record and compare your stories.
2. While placing napkins on the dining table, fold them in some unusual fancy shapes.
3. When sitting in the traffic jam, notice the license plates of nearby cars, add the numbers in your mind, square the result and then divide it by seven.
4. Cut out some pictures from magazines or newspapers and separate them from their captions. Mix them all and randomly spread captions to pictures. Do you see something interesting? Is there an idea for a new caption or a funny caricature?
5. Divide complex problems on sub-tasks and make lists of them.
6. The next time you travel into an unfamiliar city, do not bring a map. Read the traffic signs and try to determine which local resident you can ask for directions.
7. Carry a pencil and paper everywhere. While sitting on the subway, in the waiting room of your doctor, etc., try to draw everything you see, not necessarily to paint a picture for a museum. For example, sketch a coffee pot on a tissue. Draw a chair in the margin of the magazine. Try to sketch objects spatial perspective.
8. Satisfy your curiosity. If you are interested in something, search for how-tos in the internet, look in the guides, ask someone!
9. Start learning a foreign language.
10. Try new food products every fourth visit to the grocery store. Just put in your shopping cart products that you haven't bought yet.
11. Consider any advertisement in a magazine or newspaper. What would you improve in a graphic design? Come up with a new advertising slogan or suggest the better commercial name for this product.
12. Try to measure food volume with your eyes when cooking.
13. Map out your goals and make a plan of actions for the next five years. Think of something serious: your career, rearing your child, growing a garden or buying a new house.
14. Learn how to play games that require strategy, such as bridge, chess or poker.
15. Change your usual route to work. Measure the time and compare it to the time you usually spent.
16. Open the dictionary and randomly select a word. Try to make a pun, an anagram, or a point of the funny story.
17. Read as much as you can, watch movies and go to plays. Analyze the behavior of characters, try to put yourself in their shoes and think how you would behave in their situation.
18. Be attentive and sharp. Try to notice every detail, whether it is an unusual color combination on a banner advertising or a violin sound from a street musician. Observe and distinguish a variety of smells.
19. Compose tales and fables and try to illustrate them. Give real objects unrealistic features of color, shape, volume, etc.
20. Imagine what it would be like if dinosaurs, some of the plants or animals came to life again? The point of this activity is to learn how to represent something impossible and unreal. Offer it to your friends, record and compare your stories.
