Yahoo Finance 70 ways to work out your right brain and boost your creativity
If you find yourself facing the same problems at work or in your relationships over and over again, it might not be the predicament that needs to change, but your thinking.
According to Australian media personality Russel Howcroft and creative director Alex Wadelton, we’ve forgotten how to play like we did when we were children experiencing things for the first time – and we’ve lost our creativity over time as a result.
“Playfulness is where our most original thinking occurs. The best ideas and breakthrough thinking can come through mucking about and just trying new things,” Howcroft wrote in his new book The Right-Brain Workout.
The right side of our brain is said to be responsible for the more creative, artistic, intuitive and imaginative side of ourselves.
“The more often you exercise your creative side, the stronger it will become.”
Howcroft and Wadelton consulted with a number of Australia’s best creative minds to come up with a total of 70 questions designed to re-ignite your creativity.
Some of Yahoo Finance’s favourites include ones that ask you to use your visual art skills (‘Draw your surname as a heavy metal logo’) or your lyrical abilities (‘Write the first verse to your hit song, ‘I married a mushroom so just deal with it, Dad!’) to the awkward (‘You know that moment when someone says “hello” and you respond “good, thanks”? Give that moment an actual name and describe how it feels’) and the almost-philosophical (‘What’s wrong with people?’).
Some are simply as irreverent as: ‘If aliens were to drop lines from the sky to catch humans like we catch fish, what would be the best bait?’, but all are designed to get your creative juices going.
Do you have ways to boost creativity, or did you do any of these exercises? Let us know at jessica.yun@yahoofinance.com.
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