3 TED Talks to Unleash Your Creativity

January 4, 2015
Looking for some inspirational  ideas to unleash your creativity and kickstart the new year? The TED talks below are definitely a must watch. The start of a new year is traditionally the time that most people set out goals and resolutions and create to-do lists. These talks will help you come up with creative ideas to include  in your resolutions list and most importantly, will "offer the kick-in-the-pants you need to unleash your creative spirit.

1- Your Elusive Creative Genius by Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses � and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

2- How to build your creative confidence by David Kelly

Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create... (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

3- Try Something New for 30 Days by Mutt Cutts

Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.

Source: TED Blog

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40 Ways to Stay Creative

December, 2014
Fostering creative thinking inside our classrooms is one of the essential goals of our teaching. Ask any teacher today about what they want their students to develop and creativity will definitely be featured in their answers. Creativity is also a process that follows a thinking path, one that is inquisitive and noisy.  Saying that it is a process implies that it is learnable but it is not learned in the same rigorous way other thinking skills are learned.

Here is a good visual that features some interesting tips to help you stay creative. Have a look and let us know what you think of it.
Disclaimer: number 30 is not something I would recommend to students .

Source: Layerform

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Excellent Tips to Stimulate Creativity

November 18, 2014
Creativity block, similar to writer's block, is a mental state that makes you feel incapacitated and unable to generate new ideas to move the process of whatever you are working on ahead. I believe we have all experimented creative blocks at some point in our work but the good thing is that there are several good ways we can use to overcome this block. The visual below from Gonzalo Gomez features some ideas to help you unleash your creative thinking. Here are the ones that stood out to me:

1- Go for a walk or  do any  kind of physical exercise. This usually helps you come back to whatever you were working on with renewed energy and a set of fresh eyes.

2- Take a break. Sometimes all that you need to engage in a creative thinking process is to take a break and enjoy some time with family or friends, watch a movie , read some non-fiction �etc

3- Change the way you do things and break your work routine.

4- When a new idea dawns on you, make sure you take note of it. For instance, if you are outside , use your phone to note it down and come back to it when you re home.

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