Ultimate Recipe to Become Smart By Developing Creativity

Most of us consider Creative Development as making attractive pictures, paintings, or any virtual thoughts to a physical form under some generic guidance.

Are you one of those who believe Creative people are born with high potential and one can’t enroot creative development in their life?

That’s a common misconception people usually have. Of course, there are some special people with extraordinary talents they own; on the other side, there is the possibility to embrace creative development in every person’s life.

“Process of having original ideas that have values is known as creative development”. This is the combination of knowledge of any particular field and ideas to connect the knowledge to give an output that is effective. The outcome of original thinking must be evaluated to identify whether the results have any values that are practicable. – DR. KEN ROBINSON 

WHAT CREATIVITY ACTUALLY MEANS:

Creative development is the process, not an event. Creativity is the combination of human intelligence and imagination which eventually leads to a valuable result.   

Creativity is not contradictory to skills or understanding of a particular discipline. Indeed, people can end up more creative as they get exposure to the skill, knowledge, and media on which creative work depends.

Creative development is not restricted to any particular field. We can develop our creative development in fields like Arts, music, business, writing, dancing, drama/acting, cooking, Architecture, automobiles, fashion, marketing, comedy, martial arts mostly any of the field

The main key is to master the ethics of the specific process. All the elements must be memories and totally understand all the possible outcomes of the process. Then apply this knowledge to interconnect with imagination to introduce better innovations. Which is evaluated and analyzed to identify limitations and benefits. It is not necessary that the original idea must be totally out of the world. It just should be new to the process, new to the field, or at least new to you. Imagination is the soul of creativity.

12 AWESOME WAYS TO DEVELOP CREATIVITY:

Creativity development is a collaborative process; it is not an individual process. We all are born with amazing natural capabilities for creativity but our education tends to stamp us down. You must believe in taking a risk to understand the peaks and drawbacks of the original ideas. Well taking risks may involve positive or negative results that can change your life by million-dollar profits or sometimes loss or nothing. By thinking differently may emerge too many unpredicted results that could possibly rise to innovations. 

And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud, was more painful, than the risk, it took to Blossom.  ~Anais Nin

 Most common habits that endorse to build creative development are as follows:

  • LEARNING NEW THINGS: 

Stay curious to learn new things or procedures in different fields or the same field, try to at least have surface knowledge of its new field or upgrade yourself with something relevant to your field.

  • ORIGINAL THINKING: 

It is the combination of human intelligence and imagination to solve problems, innovation, and discoveries. Appreciate if you’re getting some ideas don’t suppress them likewise don’t stress your brain that may lead to creative blackout or blackout due to stress. This may end up in neurons death or give you a headache or other symptoms

  • BREAK YOUR LIMITATIONS: 

Go out of your delight zone so that you could explore new abilities and ways that help you to new ideas to modernize the world that you never thought you ever could.

  • COLLABORATE WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE: 

Surround yourself with like-minded people by this you make many familiar personalities and close to the creative opportunities and you will appreciate the time spent with creative personalities by which your creativity may flourish in a shorter duration. Try to attend seminars, meetings, gatherings where creativity is given a huge appreciation and admired.

  • INNOVATION IS LIFE: 

Believe in innovations, this helps your brain to imagine some amazing ways that’ll possibly make it much easier to develop your creativity. People get used to all those products that are commonly used in day to day life and always look for some better options or alternatives that are better and advanced.

  • DEVELOPING CREATIVE HOBBIES : 

Activities like drawing or photographic activities help you to boost your creative thinking as your brain try to say some story in the form of art 

  • PLAY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: 

In the research, it been observed that performing any musical instruments helps in boosting creative development   

  • TRY TRAVELLING:

It’s been observed that exploring new surroundings or areas helps humans to think or observe many new things. This ultimately introduces new creative thoughts or ideas to innovations. If it’s very hard to travel in your occupied life try to take time on weekends at least to come close to Mother Nature.

  • LISTENING MUSIC:

Music helps to improve creative thinking but the catch is music must be peaceful and smooth. There is a part of the brain called the hippocampus which helps to boost creative thinking.

  • GOOD SLEEP :

Improper sleep may affect your hormonal imbalance and hold in junk information. Proper rest will help your brain to work smoothly and you will be ready with new thoughts.

  • STAY HYDRATED:

Always drink enough water to keep your body hydrated. This helps your brain to imagine and get many ideas. Else, if your body is not hydrated then your brain goes to survival mode that may affect your creative growth and thinking.

  • EAT HEALTHY FOOD:

Consuming healthy food is a good sign for your body and brain to stay active but never eat more than required or simply don’t eat till your stomach screams to stop. By that your brain priority changes and all the concentration goes on the digestive system that will make your lazy

SOME BENEFITS OF CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT:

Learning gives creativity

Creativity leads to thinking

Thinking provides knowledge

Knowledge makes you great

                                               -SIR A. P. J. ABDUAL KALAM 

Innovation is the soul of the global economy as the economy won’t look for flourish unless we won’t look for multiple ways of initiation and organize capacities to discover new ways of developing abilities and creative works. As our earlier generations believe in creativity that leads to many advanced comfortable discoveries as we enjoy it today. The most amazing benefits that’s you will feel as you achieve original creative thinking is 

  • INCREASES SELF ESTEEM:

In our life, one of the most priorities we prefer is having positive self-esteem that helps in boosting our morality. The things that include in self-esteem are as follows 

·         The sense of security

·         The sense of identity 

·         The sense of belonging 

·         The sense of purpose 

·         The sense of competence 

  • FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION:

When we express, it gives them opportunities to engage with the universe without pointing only at you. This freedom of expression is very hard to find these days as most of them are worried about judgment by society at large. Once you overcome the thought of social pressure; you will feel a sense of satisfaction about your expression and you get rid of tons of pressure from your head. Then we can access your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

  • LOGICALLY PROBLEM SOLVER: 

Life is full of many new unexpected twists and turns every other day. As being creative, your brain won’t worry about problems. It tries to identify and solve the errors that are blocking you from stepping forward. You should always continue progress in learning new things, new resources that could help in fixing new challenges of life.

  • RISK TAKING:

In this world, the most common thing you can find in all successful people is taking risks in the way of thinking creatively.  There is no right or wrong way to be creative. It’s not necessary that you end up with some new discovery or innovation in the process but you stop thinking negatively. Due to which in the long run your creativity will be increased, and your thoughts towards your ideas, when ideas fail will be changed.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”.                                                                              ~THOMAS A EDISON 

  • INCREASE YOUR ABILITY TO FOCUS:

Your ability of creative thinking help you to gain new knowledge like new concepts, process or ideas by focusing on the subject and even this process help you to solve the problem by focusing the root cause in daily lives  

  • HELP YOU TO LINK WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGINATION:

The main concept of original thinking is connecting your knowledge and ideas to introduce amazing innovations and discoveries. On the way of being creative your brain always appreciates new ideas and tries to connect with the knowledge you have that results in creative development in life. 

CRAZY MYTHS ON CREATIVE PEOPLE:

  • ONLY SPECIAL PEOPLE ARE CREATIVE :

This is the most common belief that every third person in the society says only creativity comes from birth and it’s quite impossible to be creative in life if you weren’t born with creativity. That’s totally wrong; every human being is born with creativity as it comes with  part and package of life. We actually have enough natural capacity for original thinking, imaginations and the potential to be creative.

  • CREATIVITY COMES WITH WEIRD PRACTICES: 

 Many people say, if you have practiced this ritual then only you can become creative or if you are creative in any particular field then you can’t be creative in other fields. Well, that’s another wrong misconception; you can be creative in any field. You can be creative in whatsoever which involves human intelligence and imagination. It is not fixed with one step of practice or any other. 

  • ANTIPATICO TO LEARNING or DISCIPLINE:

There are people who say creative original ideas only come if you are totally free from all the responsibilities/ do not appreciate learning/rogue to an extent. Of Course it’s not, one cannot be creative in any field if he doesn’t have any knowledge or at least surface information about how and when to use it 

  • CREATIVITY CANNOT BE THOUGHT:

Well, it’s not a spoon-feeding process where creativity is thought under supervision or told to memories by some specific methods to learn creativity. Infact, there are long ways of discipline required in the cultivation of creative development, like skills, attitude, knowledge, mindset and many more which help to flourish the process of having original ideas that have values. So creative development can be thought of by anyone if he has discipline to follow and practise.

Summary : 

 Building creativity in yourself can open multiple doors of opportunity and enable you to see the world from a different perspective and creates the ease to perform tasks in a better way. Creativity has no rules and helps you learn about failure and success too. It enfolds about your hidden thoughts, creativity, freedom of thoughts, not concern of being judged, expressing what you feel are some of the flushing benefits that help you to be developed and stay smart in life & help the universe with many creative innovations.