Additional Notes

Because there is impossible to be creative without the information to generate it.

• Executive network: to eliminate choices.
• Default mode network: for spontaneous imagination that arise when you stop paying attention to the external world.
• Salience network: to pay attention to what’s more interesting in the...

• Nigra-Striatal Pathway: involved in generating movements, eye movements, and when you think about movement.

(It’s involved in divergent thinking).

• Mesocortical pathway: it’s involved in motivation and emotions.

(It’s invol...

• Open monitoring meditation (For divergent thinking).
• Focused attention meditation (For convergent thinking).
• Yoga nidra (For divergent thinking): it c...

• If you feel in a good mood (High dopamine levels), avoid external stimuli and start with divergent thinking as soon as possible.
• If you feel in a bad mood (low dopamine levels), seek external stimuli and don’t start divergent thinking just yet.

Allow whatever thoughts, emotions or ideas arrive to occur.

According to this theory, there are three elements to enhance creativity:

• World building: imagine new worlds are posible by creating new rules.
• Perspective shifting: think about others underlying motivations.
• Action generating t...

• Divergent thinking: involves taking one stimulus to radiate out into different things.

(This is what underlies idea generation).

• Convergent thinking: involves getting to a single answer from one stimulus.

(It requires mo...

Focusing your attention on one stimulus.