Creativity encourages us to perceive the world in new and different ways. It helps us create works of beauty, problem-solve, and restore our bodies and our brains. It’s fun, and when you own fun, you are influencing your health. Perfectionism can kill creativity. You wear yourself thin by assuming something isn’t good enough, and you get stuck in analysis. When we realize we’re the ones setting high standards, we have the choice to accept imperfection and become free to express our creativity.

Reverse Thinking

Sometimes, the best way to solve a difficulty is to see it uniquely. A logic or decision tree can support you tackle a problem by breaking possible solutions down into parts and following those parts down new paths. Creating a logic tree is simple – analyzing the problem or question, offering solutions or answers, and generating ideas about accomplishing them. Here’s an instance to get started: Reverse thinking can make a small team focused on a problem for a long time think about it entirely differently – and come up with a broad range of innovative ideas that might help solve it.

Starbursting

Start the starbursting training with a six-pointed star. In the middle of the star, write the topic. Then, at any point of the star, write one of the following words: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. Because it focuses on questions rather than statements, starbursting encourages people to examine an idea from each angle. Presenting an idea in this way relieves the person who created the concept from defending it or figuring out how to execute it independently.

Spend Time in Nature

A study titled “Creativity in the Wild: Enhancing Creative Reasoning Through Immersion in Natural Settings” showed how nature affects creativity. An organization of hikers who spent four days immersed in nature and disconnected from technological devices increased performance. That’s likely because of the transition of setting. When you’re trying to generate ideas, get away from your usual environment. Go outside and take a walk—work from the local library or coffee shop instead of your office or dining room. Hold a pen and paper handy for all those new ideas you come up with.

Nature in this study gave emotionally positive stimuli. By decreasing the usage of phones and computers, those in the study weren’t switching tasks or multi-tasking, serving sudden events, managing task goals, or inhibiting inappropriate actions. Therefore, spending quality time in nature enhanced their creativity test records. So, when problems stump you, move away from the computer. It helps to think creatively about answers and choices while walking in the garden or hiking in the park.

Rapid ideation

The goal is to make as many ideas as promptly as possible. Set a timer for five minutes. Write as many pictures as you can before the timer sounds.

In rapid ideation, everyone writes down as several ideas as possible in a set amount of time before any pictures are explained, critiqued, or fleshed out. You will want to develop (and stick to) a time constraint for this brainstorming technique unless you’ll risk missing the feeling of urgency.

This brainstorming exercise can be essential to avoid the all-too-common situation when an idea is executed before it has time to develop, transform, and improve. By allowing everyone to capture views before the critique begins, rapid ideation bypasses the specific, premature shooting down of ideas. The time constraint can also stop people from talking themselves out of an idea before sharing it with a group.

Brainstorm New Ideas

Brainstorming is a common technique in educational and professional environments, but it can also be a powerful tool for developing your creativity. Start by suspending your judgment and self-criticism, then start writing down related ideas and possible solutions. The goal is to generate as many views as possible in a relatively short period. Next, focus on clarifying and refining your thoughts to arrive at the best possible choice.

Mind Maps

Mind Maps are a great way to combine creativity and technicality into your creative brainstorming process. They support the content creator in synthesizing ideas in a way that’s visually appealing by forming a broader extent of a topic. Begin your mind map with a general theme/topic in the giant bubble, then branch out into smaller like-topics.

Mind mapping improves your creativity and productivity by identifying relationships among the different data and information, effectively enhancing your memory and retention.

Conclusion

We tell ourselves that we’re not ready, and we believe we need to learn more before beginning. We may never feel completely prepared, but we’ll feel a lot better and more confident after allowing ourselves to act. Being stuck isn’t a great mood, especially when you’re trying to be creative. But these techniques to try when you’re creatively stuck might be able to support you get through your blocks so that you can start building happiness in your life again.