How to unlock your creativity – even if you see yourself as a conventional thinker
New research highlights how anyone can train their creative muscles by rethinking the anxiety, frustration and anger they encounter in daily life.
«Creativity is often defined as the generation of ideas or insights that are novel and useful. That is, creative thoughts are original and unexpected, but also feasible and useful.»
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The Creative Switch
No idea? The basic recipe for good ideas is really simple: Just create a lot of options and then pick the best one. But why is that so hard? Because for each of those two steps we need to be in a different mood.
«The basic recipe for good ideas is really simple: Just create a lot of options and then pick the best one.»
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