How To Unleash Your Creative Thinking (514 words):

Many people think that only a select few are able to come up with creative or ingenious ideas. However, this is not true. Virtually anyone can come up with creative or ingenious ideas; the key is to use your imagination and knowledge in order to come up with these ideas. You have to exercise that creative ability in your mind regularly in order to become better at it. It’s almost like a “muscle” that you would exercise to improve it’s shape and endurance. Likewise, using the creative power of your mind to come up with creative and ingenious ideas will become easier for you once you start “exercising” this creative power inside of your mind.

Becoming a “sponge” will also help you unleash this creative power. By “sponge,” I mean taking in as much knowledge as you can, by reading everything you can get your hands on, via offline and online resources. By “sponge,” I mean observing everything around you in nature and in the world we live in.

Don’t be afraid to try new activities, even activities that people would consider impossible to achieve or a waste of time for engaging in such boring activity; you never know when you might discover something that no one else has ever thought of or come across. At the very least, you’ll learn from the experience, which can only help broaden the horizons of your creative thinking, enabling you to come up with creative ideas for you to try. Plus, the fact that you are thrusting yourself out of your “comfort zone” will invigorate you and give you a new zest for life because you’re trying things for the first time, an experience that you haven’t felt with any regularity since you were a child.

“Thinking out of the box” can be a good thing, but at times, having limitations to what you can do to accomplish something can be good as well. The reason why is because the limitations will force your mind to work within the confines of the restrictions, causing you to become more resourceful and creative with the solutions that will fit the criteria of the limitations. This will only make your mind stronger and that much more able to come up with creative solutions to challenging problems, even when options and materials are limited.

Some other activities to help you stir your creative genius:

- Try drawing for a few minutes each day about any and all objects that enter your mind.

- Take out your digital camera and start taking pictures of all sorts of objects, from natural objects to man-made objects.

- Keep a journal and write down all your thoughts from each day in it, on any topics you’ve thought about, no matter how bizarre those topics might be.

- Describe something using your five senses and avoiding such vague adjectives like “marvelous” and “delicious,” using more descriptive adjectives like “earth-shattering” and “spicy.”

Once you start to see some positive results from these creative exercises, you’ll likely want to continue them, thereby increasing your creative thinking and writing.