Stay Creative
To be successful in life, I always think that you should stay creative and stay curious. Always try to figure out a better way to do things, or always try to understand better of what we do either at school, at work or even being a human. What we learn at school is really the basic. I always think that we are going to school to learn how to learn. The real work has to learn while you are at your job. If you try to follow too much of what you learn at school, this will not bring you a very successful career. You need to have creativity, curiosity and initiative to really make something or do something awesome either at work or in your life.
Projects at school are the ways to see if you can apply what you learn. On top of that, if you add in your creativity, then your project will stand out and you would be able to score a very high mark. The important of staying creative is so important. However, at school we follow too much of what the teacher wants and completely forgets to add in our creativity to make the projects special. When we were born, we were very creative. Usually kids are able to play on their own with their own imagination. As we grow older and older, we lose this ability because we follow too much of what other people wants us to do. It is hard to stay creative, while we have all sorts of rules to follow in school or in our lives.
Actions that I used to stay creative
1. Play less video games
You should not play too much video game because all you are doing in the video game is to follow the rules and find or do what the game asks you to.
2. Watch TV (but not too much)
Watch TV about an hour every day, it will help you to get more knowledge and have more ideas.
3. Day dreams a few minutes every day
This helps your brain to think about things that normally you do not think about.
4. Stay curious
By asking more “why”, it will help you to gain more knowledge and have more ideas. This will enhance the creativity.
5. Walk in your house while thinking
While you are thinking, most of your blood is in your brain. If you think while you walk, it helps your blood to circulate better and helps to gain more ideas.
6. Think or day dream at the potty
This is my last secret of mine. I personally do that on my own. Somehow, it helps blood circulate into my brain and helps me to have good idea about work or about life.
The ways of how I think to stay creative
7. Think positive
Always think positive to increase your self-esteem. Then it will help you to stay creative.
8. Open Minded
Keep an open minded, so you can expose to more things.
9. Don’t care about how other people think
Try not to care too much about how other people think about your work or talent. Everybody has their opinion anyway. People can think what they want, and you can do what you want too.
Stay Creative
If you go on wikihow, you can probably see the following tips to stay creative:
- Take feedback with a grain of salt
- Don’t be afraid to criticize yourself
- Don’t be a perfectionist
- Don’t tie your self-worth to your creative output
- Put yourself into situations where you know you will fail
- Think like an adult but act like a kid
- Find a routine that works for you
- Don’t get influenced by trends
- Don’t be obsessed with popular culture
- Don’t fit your work into a genre
- Take advantage of your alone time
- Ignore the past
- Limit yourself to only using the most vital tools
- Write a story based on a picture
- Spend half an hour a day thinking exclusively about one subject
- Speak for 15 minutes without using the words I, me, my and mine
- Combine two distinct ideas
- Keep a metaphor journal
- Answer a list of basic questions using song lyrics
- Write the same story from the point of view of three characters
I particularly think the one that I used are very useful too.
Now it’s your turn to be creative and stay creative!
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