How To Be Creative When You Are Not Creative

Creativity is a process that takes time, but you don’t have to be creative all the time.

Creativity can bring out the best and the worst in you at the same time. You need patience to try as many options as possible. You can’t put good ideas on tape, and that generates negative moods and demotivation.

Therefore, you need strength to overcome every failure. You must know that a creative person has on average about ten good ideas a year. So, don’t panic when things don’t go your way.

Creativity is not simply born, it must be cultivated. So put on your work overalls, polish your tools from storage, open the garden gate wide, and get digging!

The first step is to gather as much information as possible. It does not matter if they are related to the field of interest or not. You try to find as many interesting things as possible. You can read books, newspapers, or articles. You can look on social media.

You can meet with a friend and tell different stories. The idea is for the information to circulate! This is what you need. At this stage, your job is to collect as much data as possible. Indeed, not all of them will help you in your first creative project. However, you never know when it’s their turn.

You may find this advice strange, but it has a point. You can’t be a creative person 24 hours a day. Good ideas come and go in the life of a creative person. Most of the time, they appear when you least expect it.

For example, you want to go for a run and you bend down to tie your shoelaces. That’s when the perfect slogan comes to mind. After sitting on it for a whole week with no success, it appeared out of nowhere. You are happy, but confused at the same time. How is it possible that exactly at that moment the solution you needed appeared in your mind? Psychologists call this process “incubation.”

Creativity works on both a conscious and a subconscious level.
The moment you see that you have worked too much on an idea…

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