What if you stimulated your creativity!
30 June 2011
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We often feel like we have no creativity, that our work is limited to execution rather than creation, and yet we all have hidden abilities, we just need to let them express themselves.
ReKrute.com gives you some advice on the art and manner of giving free rein to your creativity.
It is enough to be passionate about one's field and to banish any form of self-censorship because the art of inventing is nothing other than the ability to transform things and attitudes into something new and original, thanks to the power of the associations that your brain, once freed from the yoke of self-censorship, could achieve with extraordinary power...
To find an idea, you have to create a shock between two universes and especially not stay glued to the computer but draw your inspiration in the corridors, by browsing a magazine or watching a cartoon... Why not? Creativity requires being receptive to all the ideas that cross the mind, even those that may seem grotesque at first. Make "Why not?" your watchword for your wildest imaginations, but above all, have fun, it's the greatest secret of creativity.
Breaking the routine
Meetings, figures, organization... Nothing is worse than routine to block creativity... Many managers agree that caught up in the daily grind, they need a change of context to bring out their creativity.
In order to break with the routine, nothing is better than to confront oneself with new challenges, change partners on a project, mix cultures, etc...
Finding your sources of inspiration
The world is teeming with new ideas, you just have to look around you. Sources of inspiration can be in the street, in the garden... So many pieces of life that can feed your imagination and help you develop your creativity.
In case of lack of inspiration, nothing beats a quick look at the neighbors in your profession, here or abroad, but it is even more fruitful to explore sectors very different from your own.
The question is, once this creative exploration is done, how to use in my profession this technique that works elsewhere? Having ideas is good, but for them to be truly effective, you need to have a good knowledge and vision of the need.
Dare to be unreasonable
Without unnecessary provocation, you sometimes have to take a detour through the unreasonable to return to what is actually acceptable. It is by transgressing the rules and daring to challenge received ideas (in a justified way) that ideas can spring forth and lay the foundations for the company's success.
For this, management must set an example so that employees can go there once the taboos are lifted in order to launch a maximum of ideas.
Adapting to constraints
In the face of extremely strong constraints, some of the most surprising innovations can be born. Forced to take detours, strict frameworks stimulate intelligence... provided they are considered positively. There are no problems, there are only solutions...
It is also important to know that it is all the more useless to get angry because anxiety and stress paralyze brain activity, which blurs creativity and blocks the association of ideas.
Breaking your rituals
Breaking with your routine thought patterns allows you to solicit areas of the brain that are generally unexplored and thus discover a new way of seeing things.
Innovation is not the sole preserve of creatives but can be expressed at all levels and in all professions in the company, without restriction. We are all inventive, each in our own way.
Posted on June 24, 2011
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
ReKrute.com gives you some advice on the art and manner of giving free rein to your creativity.
It is enough to be passionate about one's field and to banish any form of self-censorship because the art of inventing is nothing other than the ability to transform things and attitudes into something new and original, thanks to the power of the associations that your brain, once freed from the yoke of self-censorship, could achieve with extraordinary power...
To find an idea, you have to create a shock between two universes and especially not stay glued to the computer but draw your inspiration in the corridors, by browsing a magazine or watching a cartoon... Why not? Creativity requires being receptive to all the ideas that cross the mind, even those that may seem grotesque at first. Make "Why not?" your watchword for your wildest imaginations, but above all, have fun, it's the greatest secret of creativity.
Breaking the routine
Meetings, figures, organization... Nothing is worse than routine to block creativity... Many managers agree that caught up in the daily grind, they need a change of context to bring out their creativity.
In order to break with the routine, nothing is better than to confront oneself with new challenges, change partners on a project, mix cultures, etc...
Finding your sources of inspiration
The world is teeming with new ideas, you just have to look around you. Sources of inspiration can be in the street, in the garden... So many pieces of life that can feed your imagination and help you develop your creativity.
In case of lack of inspiration, nothing beats a quick look at the neighbors in your profession, here or abroad, but it is even more fruitful to explore sectors very different from your own.
The question is, once this creative exploration is done, how to use in my profession this technique that works elsewhere? Having ideas is good, but for them to be truly effective, you need to have a good knowledge and vision of the need.
Dare to be unreasonable
Without unnecessary provocation, you sometimes have to take a detour through the unreasonable to return to what is actually acceptable. It is by transgressing the rules and daring to challenge received ideas (in a justified way) that ideas can spring forth and lay the foundations for the company's success.
For this, management must set an example so that employees can go there once the taboos are lifted in order to launch a maximum of ideas.
Adapting to constraints
In the face of extremely strong constraints, some of the most surprising innovations can be born. Forced to take detours, strict frameworks stimulate intelligence... provided they are considered positively. There are no problems, there are only solutions...
It is also important to know that it is all the more useless to get angry because anxiety and stress paralyze brain activity, which blurs creativity and blocks the association of ideas.
Breaking your rituals
Breaking with your routine thought patterns allows you to solicit areas of the brain that are generally unexplored and thus discover a new way of seeing things.
Innovation is not the sole preserve of creatives but can be expressed at all levels and in all professions in the company, without restriction. We are all inventive, each in our own way.
Posted on June 24, 2011
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
