Creativity Resources
How are you doing with making creativity and creative problem-solving part of your everyday life? This might involve artistic interests you want to nurture. And/or being more inventive and busting through sticky challenges. There are lots of good reasons to foster our creative abilities. And this can mainly involve small acts of deliberate creativity woven into our days.
My love of creative thinking began during my days working in healthcare. It’s now migrated to my writing life and even influences my family life. I’m trying to nurture my love of dabbling in different arts and crafts just for the joy of creating. I explore creativity themes in my books. I am constantly working to get unstuck from everyday problems. And I teach and facilitate on creative thinking whenever I can.
As with anything, the more we practice, the more it becomes habit and the way we approach our work and life. You will insist on time for creating the types of art that bring you joy. You will ask why not?, what if? and how can we? more often. You’ll contribute your unique thinking and experiences to the world.
Everyday Creativity
Time Pressure-Creativity Matrix: Blog post with image exploring how time pressure impacts our creativity.
Use Images to Spark Creativity: Infographic of ways to work pictures into creative practice.
Six Thinking Hats: Handout describing this method to think through ideas and issues more effectively.
Need a Creativity Boost? Try This Easy 7 Ways Exercise:
A way to come up with new ideas and solve problems.
Storytelling-Specific
Need a Creativity Boost? Try This Word Clustering Exercise:
A way to explore words and stimulate thinking about story ideas.
Need a Creativity Boost? Try This Word Clustering Exercise:
A way to explore words and stimulate thinking about story ideas.
Web Resources: Specific Methods
- How to Use Creativity Intentionally to Enhance Daily Life & Yourself (article)
- One Simple Trick to Think Outside the Box (article)
- The Innovation Practice of Blending or Combining Ideas into Something New (article)
- How a Random Image Can Help You Generate Creative Ideas (article)
- Visual Clustering (article is specific to writing but can apply to other needs)
- Role Storming as an alternative to brainstorming (video)
- SCAMPER idea generation technique (video)
Other Web Resources
- Ted Talks creativity playlist
- Make Creativity a Habit at Work (but applies to everyday life)
- The 5 Simple Habits of Highly Creative People
- Creativity Tools: 24 Free Online Creative Thinking Tools
- EyeWire Creativity Cards
- Brainsparker website and app
- The Creativity Post website
- Two Kinds of Creativity: a-Creativity and i-Creativity article by David Parrish
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