Tricks to exercise creativity from John Jack's blog

Check out these tips to help you keep your creative skills stimulated.

Creativity is an ability to be stimulated to achieve favorable results, especially when our work demands of our creative skills all the time.

It is important to activate our creativity in different ways, among them we name 8 tricks so that you can develop your creativity :

• Take note of everything : Write about what inspires you whenever you find there is something that inspires you, write that on the same day and time.. Oftentimes, sudden ideas can appear that can be of great use to you in future projects.

• Scamper Technique: Ask questions based on ideas that you are not yet convinced: What do I want to replace? What will happen if I combine this idea with another? What other ideas could I adapt? What can be added or modified? What else could be used? What is left over? What arrangement can be made or what order could be improved?

• 6 thinking hats: Edward De Bono, proposes this extremely useful method. You must analyze reality from 6 different points of view. In this way you generate innovation and new ideas.

• Smells rosemary : The smell of rosemary is the basic essence of the fragrance. It will help you increase the speed of your mind.

• Chewing gum: The action of chewing increases blood flow, which increases oxygen in the brain.

• Water, coffee and tea: Taking a sip of water every 15 minutes reduces fatigue. Also, if you have a cup of coffee every 30 minutes before studying, it will help you see the topics more clearly. And to achieve the energy you need, the ideal is to drink green tea.

• Games and puzzles: There are many games on the internet that help develop the brain. Each of them have different dynamics that help the intellect, your abilities and your memory.

• Squeeze your hand: When you squeeze your left hand for two minutes, the neural pathways on the right side of the brain are activated. That side is creative, according to German psychologists.

• Play another role: You must put yourself in the role of another person, internalize their situation. In this way you will know the emotions and different points of view.

• Vitamin B: Intense mental work makes your brain work hard. Vitamin B is the best to rebuild the tissue of it.

We are all creative from birth, but some develop that ability more than others. Try some of these tips, you will get positive results.