Best Creativity Articles

Defeating the Inner Critic using techniques psychotherapists use to treat depression and anxiety. Teaches readers to utilize skills and do exercises typically available only to therapy clients.

Something all of us who are creative have in common is experiencing internal resistance to our creativity or creative flow. Time and time again we try to eliminate the dragons - those negative thoughts and doubts of resistance - from our minds, which leaves us slumped defeated, and more often than not giving up on our creative efforts altogether. But, there is hope. You see we don?t have to try to be dragon slayers, there is another way...

By creating a set of surroundings we find inspiring and comforting - a few metaphorical walls around us, edges that define a safe boundary for us, and familiar objects ? rather than feel restricted, we actually feel able to be MORE free, and MORE experimental with our creativity...

As creative people, we can, ironically, at times be very un-creative in our ways of thinking. We may have certain ideas, habits or assumptions that are burned into our behaviours and we simply do without questioning whether there is a better way, or even if there is another way at all. Reframing is a way to look at situations, behaviours and motivations in different ways and finding new perspectives. Here are some of the ways you can use Reframing to enhance your own creative work -

Creative people work best when they are given limitations. I know that sounds counterintuitive but is it true. These limitations help your creative team members focus so that the message they develop will be relevant, impactful, original and true. So, how do you provide these limitations to your creative team: with a creative brief. Let?s take a look at how you go about developing one.

Ask yourself honestly this question - Are you in love with your life as it is right now? Your life is a partner you're going to be with for the rest of your days. Doesn't it make sense to make that partner as lovable and as pleasurable to spend time with as you can?

Stop for a moment and think about how you might describe your creativity right now if it was a type of weather. Would it be sunny clear blue skies? Scattered showers? Constantly murky cold and overcast? Blizzard conditions?! Whatever the current ?weather conditions? in your creative life, they needn?t be permanent. We all have the ability to change how we react and the direction we?re heading in at any time.

If your kids are always begging to watch television or to turn on the video game system, maybe you need to help them find some alternatives. You will always hear people grumping about how kids never use their imaginations anymore or about how their creativity is squelched by the television. The problem is that kids learn by watching adults, and if we turn on the television when we are bored, then so will they. The best way to get your kids away from in front of the television is to give them a viable alternative. One great option is to set up a creativity center. Here are a few things that you may want to include.

Brainstorming techniques are used by many different sorts of organizations, from large corporations to tiny neighborhood groups, and even families. This article presents a basic introduction to the theory and technique of brainstorming.

Many of us, for whom creativity and expressing ourselves creatively is highly important, for whatever reasons, don't talk about it openly. It's almost like our little secret, the part of ourselves that we desperately guard from the world. But how well does this actually serve us? Here are just some of the reasons why ending your own "Superman Syndrome" and coming out to the world as a creative person can be a very good thing for you...