Comments on: How to Unleash Your Creativity

By: Veronica

Veronica — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:48:36 +0000

This post is really creative. I am saying it creative because it actually helps you to raise your creativity. And raising anyone’s creativity is not an easy job.

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By: Live for Improvement

Live for Improvement — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:30:00 +0000

Creativity comes at it’s best when there are no rules to define it.

-Dan Malone-

By: DanGTD

DanGTD — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:01:02 +0000

Thanks for the great article.

The basic technique works for me. First you need to have enough data aquired in your mental database, then in a random moment of relaxation, meditation or even exercise, there’ll be an “AHA” insight when the pieces will be magically put together to form a great new idea.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:09:58 +0000

I’m at my most creative while walking the dog. I’m usually walking for 30 – 45 minutes, twice a day. During that time my mind wanders or my imagination goes wild! What I need to do is bring a recorder of some type so that I can recall my imaginings!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:03:35 +0000

I think most of us are under the illusion that we lack creativity. I’m a very linear thinker and used push all thoughts of creativity to the back burner. I’ve come to understand that we humans cannot, not be creative. And if we acknowledge it, it can be a tool for self-discovery and problem solving.

When someone comments they are not creative, I reply, “Can you doodle?”

By: secretkeycandace

secretkeycandace — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:57:55 +0000

Creativity can come at any time. When you find yourself at your inner peace and all is still it allows you to calm down, relax and take a step back. By doing this you can have creative juices flowing.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:55:26 +0000

I read anything and everything that interests me. Discerning the true and the twisted along the way. Learned two languages (three if you include my forgotten Latin) and lived abroad.

I run my own business and am a single parent. I’ve been constantly confronted with obstacles. I put myself on a permenant learning program thinking I would have to be three times better at what I did in order to overcome my natural disadvantages.

The most important aspect of creativity and problem solving is having absolute confidence that a solution will emerge…and it has, time and time again.

God gave me the intelligence and capability to overcome and I trust Him. So I do my due diligence and stuff my head to the full position to the point that it feels like I have no more room and can’t mmove the info to reorganize.

When I pray, I give over to God including everything in my head, emptying it to make room for Him and contemplate his Word.

In my opinion, going to church and praying is like meditation, it just focuses the meditation on God and His Word. So I pray and get the same results.

Prayer has two steps. The first is a repetition to strip away the layers of distraction. Each repetition takes you deeper into the meaning of the prayer, increasing your focus. The second part is contemplation and continuous shedding of the willfulness of sin that prevents full union. It is a process of emptying to allow God in until He reigns within your mind and heart.

I am no theologian. If I had two life times, I’d spend more time to express this better. This in no way reflects a belief in my own perfection but I hope merely conveys that given this process, any level of intelligence can reach the limits of the talents God gave them and in that process become self-reliant through their own problem solving.

By: Valeria | TimelessLessons

Valeria | TimelessLessons — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:15:31 +0000

Here is another technique I’m using — Three pages of longhand writing about anything: “I don’t like the way Fred talked to me at the office”; “I need to get the car checked”; “I forgot to buy kitty litter.”

They don’t look like they have anything to do with creativity, but in fact, as I put these worries, which are sort of a daily soundtrack for most of us, down on the page, I am suddenly much more alert, aware, focused and available to the moment. And I get to see that there are many creative choices. As you write those pages, new ideas begin to walk in.