Your environment, boss, family and friends ask you to become more creative and innovative entrepreneur? Do you feel like you want to do more but don’t really have a clue how? You can work on your creativeness every single day without making a big effort. Remember that being creative doesn’t mean to create a big project tomorrow. Although if you start working on it today maybe the idea comes to your mind by chance while drinking coffee or preparing your lunch?
Additionally, do you know that being creative can make each entrepreneur happier and healthier? If not, just try to follow our advices and you will see the difference soon.
For now, get familiar with 10 surprising ways for entrepreneurs to boost creativity. Have in mind that creative thinking is the thinking when we generate ideas not when we judge ideas.
10 Surprising Ways to boost creativity:
1. Think about something far away
Research suggests our ability to solve problems improves when we think about events far off in the past or future or in another location. So, picture New Year’s Eve 2022 or dining at a café in Paris and let your imagination go.
2. Write by hand
We really advise you to skip the Word doc and pick up a pen instead – as people did 20 years ago. Sometimes the whole experience of writing by hand—the ink on our fingers, the smell of a fresh notebook—is all it takes to get creative juices flowing.
3. Look at something blue or green
These colours tend to enhance performance on cognitive tasks. Researchers say that’s because we associate blue with the ocean, sky, and openness in general, while green signals growth. Check out that globe the next time a problem pops up.
4. Gesture with two hands
Odd but true: One study found using two hands to explain something prompts the brain to consider issues from multiple perspectives. (It’s also possible that using the left hand stimulates creative thought, since left-handed people tend to be more creative in general.) Don’t believe? Just try it!
5. Spend time outside
Remember the thrill of being a kid running through the playground, making up games and adventures? Bring that feeling back simply by getting a dose of green. Being in natural settings is like playtime for adults: It taps into all five senses, energizes the body, and, most importantly, stimulates the imagination.
6. Try something new
Doing things out of habit tends to undermine creative thought; on the other hand, novelty- seeking is associated with creativity (and overall well-being). Even something as simple as taking a new route to work or experimenting with cool recipe counts.
7. Hang out with sarcastic people
Hearing sarcastic expressions of anger can help our ability to solve creative problems a lot more than just hearing direct anger. That’s possibly because sarcastic people seem less scary. So, take the facetious route next time you want some new ideas from a co-worker. (Yeah, right.)
8. Do some yoga
Some believe that certain poses, like child’s pose and pigeon pose, can facilitate creativity. Even if it's tough to prove that fact scientifically, the other benefits of yoga, such as stress and anxiety reductions, are more well-documented.
9. Play video games
Here’s one excuse to sit in front of the computer: Video games that energize players and encourage a positive mood (Wii Tennis, not Mortal Combat) can also promote creativity by boosting our problem-solving skills.
10. Exercise your eyes
Moving the eyes back and forth facilitates interaction between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, which may boost creative thinking