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Surely it&#8217;s time to bring it back to the surface&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSome thoughts about creativity that may be helpful to consider to get going again:<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1<\/span>&#8211; Yes of course there is the right brain &#8211; the creative, artistic hemisphere &#8211; but guess what, there isn&#8217;t really a specific part that is labelled Creativity. It&#8217;s not a question of someone having very developed brain segments for creativity. Creativity is perhaps a combination of many things &#8211; ways of thinking, experience and exposure, listening to ideas from others and also your own ideas, individual perceptions, how other people react to you, your inclinations, etc<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2<\/span>&#8211; You have creativity. Everybody has it. In fact, you have much more creativity than you will ever use, or need. To leverage creativity, you have to use your brain more &#8211; and we have all seen statistics on how little we use brain capacity<\/p>\n<p>Check out the ideas below. Thinking about them will help in getting you back on track. Each person&#8217;s track is different and we know you&#8217;ll find yours in a way only you know:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;\">The numbers game<\/span> &#8211; you&#8217;ll need to think about a whole lot of ideas first before you hit one good one. Emile Chartier said &#8220;nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it&#8217;s the only one you have&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;\">Think new &#8211; <\/span>don&#8217;t be worried about new ideas, be worried about the old ones<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;\">Let logic take a break &#8211; <\/span>Einstein once said that if at first an idea is not absurd, it may not have a future.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #cc0000;\">Value the &#8220;no&#8221; vote<\/span> &#8211; Do not discourage debate &#8211; encourage it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;\">A different view<\/span> &#8211; think from the point of view of someone else. A customer, a student, another colleague, someone from another country, the boss etc. This broadens perspective<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;\">A different combination &#8211; <\/span>combine your idea with other ideas or objects to produce a different set of options, packaging, solutions than what you&#8217;ve been thinking about<\/p>\n<p>It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who said<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;a mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wishing you happy stretching..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity Again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity-and-innovation","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}