Check out my 3 favorite strategies to become more creative. Most likely at least one of them is brand new for you, so check out the podcast and let me know what you think.
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In this podcast I am going to talk about how you can become more creative, so that you can come up with better solutions for your business that are more innovative, better solutions for your life, so that your life is more interesting. What does creativity actually mean? What is creativity?
A lot of people think that people are born creative. You either a creative person or you are an analytical logical person. I happen to disagree with that. All of the books about psychology, everything that I have ever read has always thought me that this is a skills, it is a muscle that you develop.
When I stopped doing videos, for example, for a couple of weeks, which I have not done in a while, but once I did that I came back and I could not come up with topics anymore. That creative muscle, it is a muscle that you need to keep practicing it. If you don’t you are going to see the negative effect of it. But if you do there’s like unlimited possibilities of how creative you can really get.
So, what are some of the techniques that I found throughout the years by reading, implementing and running businesses that allowed me and people that I teach to become more creative. One of the first things that I learned is if I do not get enough sleep I cannot be creative.
My brain is just like mess, it’s like fuck and all the roads are blocked and I have to rely on my notes to do anything that is even remotely creative. So, lack of sleep, if you do not get 8 hours of sleep it kills your creativity. For me this is 100% the case. I know some people, they work the opposite. It is a very rare type of person. If you are that kind of person, congratulations. That is fantastic. But for me I either need to have a lot of adrenaline or I need to just be well rested.
The second tip I have for being more creative is procrastination. Now, procrastination can be good or bad. I know in a lot of my podcasts I talk how to beat procrastination, but procrastination is not automatically bad at all situations.
Here’s why. If you procrastinate a little bit what are you actually doing? You are actually getting stuck with that idea, with that process in your head for prolong period of time. And you know it is that slight nagging feeling and you know you have to finish this project, that you need to come up with an idea, that you need to find the solution and that nags on you.
What happens if you do this too much, if you do this with 10 different things at the same time, you will have a lot of stress, but if you do this with only one or two things, then what actually happens is, this is based on scientific research, your brain starts coming up with more solutions.
They actually did a scientific study and they found that people who procrastinate a little bit, people who procrastinate just a little bit that someone else and wait the last moment to do it, they actually come up with more creative solutions. This is because they have had a longer period of time to come up with solutions and they did not settle on the first idea that they got. There is a lot to be said for speed of implementation. There is a lot to be said for beating procrastination, but it can be useful sometimes.
For example, every time I go to do any kind of public speaking I tend to prepare last minute and I think about the live speaking event for a long time. I keep thinking about it, I keep stressing about it. But I do not obsess over to the point where that is the only thing that I am doing. At the same time I am focused mostly on that: “well procrastinating”.