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Creativity

Creativity is the power or ability to invent or come up with new ideas. Everyone has the ability to be a highly creative person. You just need to learn out to unlock it! You exercise your body to stay in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these articles and exercises you will learn how to improve your creativity. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some Mentalrobics every single day!


General
Change of Scenery
Clear Your Mind
Mind Dump
Thinking Fluently
Distractions
Important Criteria
Fail Early to Succeed Quickly
Stereotyping
Noticing the Unnoticed
Embarrassment
Risk
Taboos
Giving Criticism
Accepting Criticism
Viewpoints
Groupthink
Ego and Superego
Emotional Blocks
Left and Right Brain
Cognitive Dissonance
Borrow and Steal
Opposite Perspective
Defer Judgment
Challenges
Imagination
Creative Environments
Find Your Environment
Other Perspectives
Negative Thinking
Peripheral Vision
Afterimages
What is Creativity?
Boundaries of Knowledge
Encouraging Creativity
Left vs Right Brain Thinking
Boredom
Flow

Aging
Children
Think Like a Child

Attention
Shape Hunting
Concentration

Books
Conceptual Blockbusting
"Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen Laberge
"Creativity" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Brainstorming
Brainstorming
Brainstorm Rule: Defer Judgment
Brainstorm Rule: Encourage Wild Ideas
Brainstorm Rule: Stay Focused
Brainstorm Rule: One Conversation
Brainstorm Rule: Build on Ideas
Brainstorm Rule: Go for Quantity
Brainstorm Rule: Be Visual
Synectics

Diet and Fitness
Caffeine
Caffeine II

Engineering Challenge
Engineering Challenge : Egg Drop
Engineering Challenge : The Bridge
Engineering Challenge : Paper Boat
Engineering Challenge : Catapult
Engineering Challenge : Kite
Engineering Challenge : Spaghetti Cantilever
Engineering Challenge : Paper Tower

Exercises
Chocolate Cereal
Story Building
Circle Drawing Exercise
Synonyms
Nonsense Names
Guesstimate Time
True or False
Word Skipping
Alternate Solutions II
Mental Emotions
Number Exercises
Superhero
Opposite Point of View
Synonyms II
True or False II
Mental Taste II
Guesstimate Distance
Alphabet Naming
Opposite Point of View II
Mental Images III
Stereotyping Yourself
Mental Emotions II
Synonyms III
Word Skipping II
Number Exercises II
Alternate Solutions III
True or False III
Word Skipping III
Letter Exercises
Capturing Creativity
Nonsense Words
Opposite Point of View III
Color Hunting
Read it Backwards
Keep Doubling
Things in a Bag

Good Practices
Capture Your Ideas
Clippings
Stay Positive
Asking Questions
Bug List
Bug List Practice
Notebook
Work Hard, Play Hard

Icebreaker
Icebreakers
Icebreaker: Name Game
Icebreaker: True or False
Icebreaker: Silent Birthday
Icebreaker: Animals
Icebreaker: Punch line
Icebreaker: Love me Baby
Icebreaker: Chair Swap
Icebreaker: Mixed Phrase
Icebreaker: Last One Standing
Icebreaker: Visual Puns
Icebreaker: Number Actions

Lucid Dreaming
Lucid Dreaming
Dream Journal
Dreamsigns
Reading While Dreaming
Am I Dreaming?

Motivation
Motivation
Plan your Work
To-do Lists
Make it Fun
Eyes on the Prize

Problem Solving
Alternate Solutions
Work on the Right Level
Lateral vs Vertical Thinking

Sleep
Sleep On It
Sleep On It II

Techniques
Break It
Horizontally Smarter
Problem Statement Morphing
One Word Problem Statement
Problem Statements
What Would Mom Do?
Elaboration
Quota
Take it Apart
Letter to Yourself
Uncomfortable Concentration

Underused Senses
Mental Audio
Mental Taste
Mental Audio II
Mental Smells
Mental Audio III
Sensory Deprivation
Mental Smells II
Creative Smells
Mental Smells III
Mental Texture

Visualizations
Mental Images
Draw It
Mental Images II
Draw a Shoe
Visualizations
Imagine What You Read
People Picturing
Goal Visualization
   





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