For a More Creative Brain, Follow These 5 Steps
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The 5 Stages of the Creative Process
The ability to generate new combinations hinges upon your ability to see the relationships between concepts. If you can form a new link between two old ideas, you have done something creative.
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1. Gather New Material
At first, you learn. During this stage, you focus on
1) Learning specific material directly related to your task and
2) Learning available material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts.
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2. Thoroughly Work Over The Materials In Your Mind
During this stage, you examine what you have learned by looking at the facts from different angles and experimenting with fitting various ideas together.
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3. Step Away From The Problem
Next, you put the problem completely out of your mind and go do something else that excites you and energizes you.
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4. Let Your Idea Return To You
At some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it, your idea will come back to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy.
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5. Shape And Develop Your Idea Based On Feedback
For any idea to succeed, you must release it out into the world, submit it to criticism, and adapt it as needed.
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The Creative Process in Short
Being creative isn't about being the first (or only) person to think of an idea. More often, creativity is about connecting ideas.
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