How To Find Your Hidden Creativity

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Creativity is all that separates some from the rest. It’s the cause for some people’s extraordinary cleverness and aptness. It’s the thing which causes the birth of great and controversial ideas, that become timeless and priceless masterpieces.

No one is devoid of creativity. In fact, you use it many times, un-knowingly. Remember the time when you used to think up fierce dragons and lovely maids for your English essay? Or the time when you caught a bully by surprise by suddenly pulling his leg (literally)? That was creativity at work, my friend!

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So, why is it that some people seem to have it working for them, while others are lost? The answer is: creativity is hidden somewhere inside of you. You have to find it and then make it work for you. It may express it self in different forms, such as while you are painting, or writing an essay, or giving an exam or fighting a bully, or what ever. The thing is that it won’t come out itself, screaming ‘Here I am!’. You have to make it come out. After all, what’s the fun of finding a treasure without a treasure-hunt? Wonder upon this.

But How?

OK. How do you think creatively? How do you be creative? Here are some tips on doing it:

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1. Think differently

Since the beginning, when we were children, we have been taught that there is only one right solution to any given problem. This is true in mathematics, I agree. But we were taught to apply this same principle in life too. We have also been taught that there is only one method to a solution. This has set the mindsets of people to one single option in anything they do in life, be it education, parenting, fights, and so on.

With all the people thinking in one direction, the other directions are forgotten. In fact, these people are not able to acknowledge the presence of these other options, simply because they have not been taught to think that way. For years they have been taught to think in one direction, and they’re not going to change their habit now.

Why don’t YOU break out of this habit, and consider following the other directions? Get your mind thinking in un-orthodox ways. You might and certainly will get bad publicity and will be sneered upon by the rest of the people who think your ideas are too far-fetched and controversial and unconventional. Ignore all those people who say about you. Don’t care. They themselves are trapped in a narrow mindset and aren’t willing or able to rid themselves of it. But you shouldn’t care.

Break the orthodox rules. Look at possibilities from another view point. Go for an ugly-looking but aesthetic design. Bring possibilities to their knees. Make things work for you rather than waiting for them to work for you. Many of the world’s current art masterpieces wouldn’t have come into existence hadn’t it been the un-orthodox, unconventional, controversial and creative thinking and ideology of their creators. They were also laughed upon, made fun of and ridiculed, but look at those masterpieces now!

Thinking differently is a very important aspect of the process of being creative. You express things and design stuff in different ways. Ways which people have never seen or experienced before. Ways which people are not willing to accept. Ways which defy the rules and laws of current standards and create their own. Ways which made it into the history books as timeless and priceless years later…

2. Observe

Observation is the mother of creativity, I would say.

Look at things around you. You will find a lot to look at. Observe even the tiniest details of these things, such as a unusual missing petal on a flower. Observe whenever you can, where ever you can. Look at people around you in the cafe you’re sitting in and observe what they mostly talk about, what the trend is: coffee or tea? Observe what age groups come in the cafe. Observe the people sitting at the next-to-yours table. Listen to their talk. This is different from eavesdropping, mind you. Judge those people from their talk. What are their political affiliations?

All these things come under observation. Wonder about why is that petal missing from the leaf? Why are their so many teenagers in the cafe towards the night? Why do most teenagers prefer tea while most adults prefer coffee? When you wonder upon these questions, a lot of new ideas will come in your mind. You will be broadening your mind (as in broad-minded) and your mind will be more accepting towards and more able to come up with new, creative ideas.

People usually ignore small, tiny things shrugging them off as irrelevant and un helpful. And they focus on the bigger stuff. They have just shut their doors to one very powerful source of creative stimulus: observation. By observing, you will realize many new things that you have never realized. I agree, these things might be very small, but they are a great source of inspiration, nevertheless.

Creativity in Blogging

Creativity is very important in blogging. If creativity wasn’t there, all blogs would have looked the same, and would have been about one single topic. It was creativity that inspired people to design blogs in a unique and beautiful way. It was creativity that allowed people to explore other areas in blogging. Also, it is creativity that makes one blog post different and unique from the other.

So, go find the creativity hidden inside of you and use it in your blogging!

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