Creativity : Breaking it Down: Key Coach Creativity Top-10 Lists
Breaking it Down: Key Coach Creativity Top-10 Lists
This powerful collection of Creativity Top 10 features over a dozen lists, essays, and bits of advice from professional coaches detailing the benefits to creativity; keys to developing, enhancing, and boosting your creativity; practical ways to become more creative; and traits of creative people.
For more in-depth articles by creativity coaches on Creativity Portal, please see Barbara Bowen's Snapshots and our creativity coaching section.
Top-10 Creativity Lists
Benefits to Creativity (Creativity: Why Bother?)
"Creativity may seem like a good idea, but why spend your valuable time and resources to develop it? Creativity: Why Bother shows you the value of living a creative life."
Boost Your Creativity
"Boost up your creative muscle; Let go of your ego; Don't compare and copy; Enjoy the process; Experiment..."
Brainjuicers to Enhance Your Creativity
"In order to enhance your creativity, your body and mind should be operating at peak efficiency. Try these brainjuicers to boost your brain power."
Keys to Developing Personal Creativity
"Creativity is a complex, multi-faceted process. Many myths have grown up around the process, one of which is that creative people have no say in the matter; that somehow creativity strikes certain people and misses others."
Distinction: Innovation vs. Creativity
Learn the differences between innovation and creativity, and understand the importance of understanding terms.
Enhance Your Creativity
"Creativity is generally regarded as desirable, and something to be enhanced. With this view in mind, here are some steps to help the development of creativity."
Enliven and Expand Your Creativity
"Trust whatever comes through you without judgment; Carve out time for creativity in your life; Give up needing to do it right or comparing with others..."
Ignite Your Creative Fire and Keep It Glowing
"Are you someone who starts creative projects with great enthusiasm and then loses momentum half way through? Do you have wonderful inspirations in the dawn only to have them fizzle by noon? "
Practical Ways to Be More Creative
"Exercise creativity through your own self-expression; Do things that stimulate your creative mind in effortless, non-taxing ways; Don't worry about if your ideas will work or not..."
Secrets of Creatively Successful Women
"Creativity takes time and silent space; There are cycles of creativity; Work from your strengths; Set strong boundaries; Stop criticizing yourself ..."
Traits of Creative People
"Hundreds of traits, or characteristics, of creative people have been identified. Thirty-some have been identified as being repeatedly mentioned across the literature."
Random Creativity
"Learn an exciting and easy way to think creatively."
The Diverge – Converge Switch
"In the divergent phase of the creative process we are thinking of many alternatives. In the convergent we may have to focus on just one. The switch between the two processes can be difficult."
Working with Women and Creativity
"Women have traditionally been caregivers and can feel guilty about taking time for themselves to CREATE what is in their hearts."
