5 Ways to Be Creative

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Five Ways to increase Creativity

Let's start by defining what being creative is and before you read on, I would like you tothink for a moment how you would define creativity?

Being creative means to create something that does not exists. What you create is entirelyup to you, it could be a solution or a method or an idea that you could work upon in your

personal or professional life. If you think that being creative is for people in art and you happen to be working for bigcorporations then you may decide that increased creativity is not important for you. Butcreativity is something far broader than artistic expression and is required in manyaspects of life. If you still think that being creative is for artists, painters, musicians and others whodirectly belong to any form of Arts, then you need to think again. Don't CEOs and people

at various levels in the organization require creativity to conceptualize a new product or create a new idea to sell their product to the market? They are all working on problems and devising solutions that didn't exist before. These

people are using their minds to imagine fresh ways of doing something, putting together existing forms and ideas in new ways. They may be creating a new idea, a new look, a new product, or new technique.Sometimes the ability to be more creative can lead to personal fame and fortune;sometimes it just provides a deep sense of personal satisfaction.

Can we improve creativity? Yes, of course we can. Read on to find out how. 1. Visualize through MeditationCreativity is reduced when our senses are dulled. Sleep well, eat well and meditate often.

I know many of us don't have the liberty of time available to mediate at home, so apply a bit of creativity. You have a problem with availability of time; use your time whiletraveling to do so. Just a good 10 – 15 minutes of meditation can put you in the right pathtowards becoming creative. During this exercise, learn to breathe softly and try to relax your body completely. Onceat this state, try to imagine being in a forest or any place that you like. Try visualizing the

surrounding in details. Try to listen to your surrounding and keep strolling around that place and keep discovering new things. 2. Be curious about the world

I would recommend that you start watching the Discovery channel. Watch the programming that you like the best and keep thinking about the why and how from it.Watching such programs help your brain to learn something new. Such learning can beapplied to a situation where you would require creative thinking.



3. Do something which does not interest youIf you hate reading, then start reading a book. If you don't like a particular type of music,

then start listening to such music. The point here is to expose your brain to as many newthings and concepts as possible. You never know what new learning you might use to

solve a problem later in life. 4. Keep observing your environmentWhile traveling to work or anywhere, observe your surroundings. Look at the various

billboards and scenery around you. Enjoy what you see and start asking questions of what-if. I personally enjoy reading all billboards and attach my what-if questions toadvertisements. I try to dig and understand what the creator of the advertiser had in mindwhen he/she created the piece of work. 5. Pick up a hobby that you enjoyDo you have a hobby? If no, then start now by asking yourself what you enjoy. Do you

enjoy music? Do you enjoy collecting items? Do you enjoy entertaining people? Do youenjoy writing? Do you enjoy drawing/painting? Do you enjoy crafts? Having a hobby helps you in many ways and directly helps you in improving your creativity. It forces you to think out of the box during the period when you are conductingyour hobby. My only hobby is magic. I enjoy entertaining people and hence learn newmoves & techniques all the time and spend some of my time in practicing and masteringthem. You might not like magic, but that's ok. Try finding something that you like anddevote some time to it. You will see a remarkable improvement in your creative ability. Closing notesThere are two sides of the brain, left and right. The right side of the brain is responsiblefor creativity, whereas the left side of the brain is logical. How do you find what type of person you are? If you can remember names more thanfaces, then you are a left brained person and if you can remember faces more than namesthen you are right brained person. This means that either your left or the right brain hasgreater impact on you. Some quotes on creativity:The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. AlbertEinstein To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri L Bergson There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who withthe help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun - PabloPicasso



* Dissidents look where all have looked and see what no one has seen. While all the battery manufacturers were trying to develop battery that is small in size, but with longer duration for laptop applications, 3M looked inside the machine and found that power is

consumed more on the display screen and came up with TFT technology screens, whichconsume much less power. With the existing battery itself the problem was solved and allthe Laptop manufacturers adapted the TFT Technology.

* When Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India, he sent a delegation of 20 industrialists to UK, where a textile fair was going on. The objective of delegation wasto establish collaborations with mill owners in UK and put up textile mills in India. Whileall the 19 were negotiating with mill owners, Devarajulu, a delegate from Coimbatorelooked elsewhere. "All these 19 are going to put textile mills in India. They all will needtextile machineries, so why not collaborate with textile machinery manufacturers and putup in a unit in India for manufacturing textile machineries. Thus came Lakshmi Machine

Works, the first textile machinery manufacturers in India.* 3M researcher Spencer Silver was trying to create a superglue but ended up the with theopposite - a glue that wouldn't dry and could barely hold two pieces together. What thedevil could be use the stuff for? Silver never did come with the answer, but some fiveyear later a fellow employeee, Art Fry, began using the glue on small scraps of paper,making bookmarks for his church hymnal. Then it was "Post-it" sticky note paper sensation.

* Percey LeBaran Spencer, a hero of World War II for his work in developing radar, anda holder of more than 100 patents, was walking thro' his lab when he stopped bymagnetron - the tube that produces the high frequency microwaives that power radar. "Hewas working on things like missile defence systems." Paliva says, " But just that secondhe got a strange feeling. He realized that a chocolate bar in his jacket pocket had melted."Odd, Spencer thought. Immediately, he put some popcorn kernels infront of magnetron.Soon popcorn was popping all over the place. "Other People might just make a note or two in a lab note book and let it go." Paliva says, "But spencer was thinking about whatthis could be used for --- a microwave oven."

-B.RagavendranIIyr MBA

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