Royane Real

By David W Richards

Introductory comments

By Royane Real

Author of “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” 

Do you wish that you were more creative?  Or does the idea of becoming more creative scare you? 

Creative people see things in a slightly different way than people who are not creative.  Creative people can always imagine a new way of doing things.

Does that mean that the new ideas that creative people come up with are always better than the old way of doing things?

Not necessarily.  Creative people can imagine lots of bad, impractical ideas as well as imagine a lot of really good solutions to problems.

If you want to become more creative, you have to stop worrying about whether the new ideas you generate are going to be good or bad.  You have to learn to stop worrying what other people will think about you and your ideas.  You have to stop judging yourself harshly if you make some mistakes along the way.

Does that mean that you should never judge your ideas if you want to be more creative? 

No, it just means that when you are trying to be creative, you stop judging and evaluating during the initial stage. 

Later, once you have come up with a lot of ideas you can start the sorting process.  You may have to throw many of your ideas out just because they are not practical at the moment.  But if you free up your mind to be creative in the first place, you will find you have many good ideas to choose from, as well as many ideas that are not so good.

In this brief following article by David Richards, you can get many ideas that will help you to free up your mind and think in a more creative way.

( The introductory comments which appear above are written by Royane Real who is the author of the book  “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”  Download it today and learn more ways to get the maximum use of your brainpower. It’s available at  http://www.lulu.com/real  ) 

Feature article

Little Known Ways to Be More Creative in Life

By David W Richards

Whether you use more of your right or left brain, or you use both, it’s better for you to be more active in using more of your right brain.

Let me tell you how to:

1. Play along with your curiosity.  Ask: why and how.  Don’t just accept it when someone makes a statement you don’t really understand.  Think and think.

2. Use some of your time to dream up. While doing it, make sure not to think about “What if”, or “Should have been”.  Instead, imagine that you have done all your tasks so all you need to do is relax.

3. Play. Use anything you can find around you that you can play with. No, not video games or whatever, but simply your pen, clips, or keys.

4. Read science fiction. Think about the impossible.

5. Take a risk. Let yourself make a mistake. To be more creative you need to learn from your mistakes.

6. Be expressive. Give yourself as much freedom to express yourself without having to feel afraid of being criticized.

7. Enjoy the process.  Don’t push yourself to picture the result, but take pleasure in doing the process.  No need to burden your mind with such an unnecessary thought about the result.

8. Think positively and believe that all your problems have their own solutions, no matter how big they are. If you somehow have doubts in yourself, it means that you haven’t set yourself free.

9. Write down all your ideas then save them somewhere.  If you don’t need them now, you might need them later. So, once you have to come up with new ideas, simply get into your savings.

10. Just do it and do it now.  The sooner the better and the more creative you become. Why would you wait for tomorrow if you can do it today?  You don’t need a special time to be creative. Just do it now.

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