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Originality and inspiration may drip from your every pore, but every now and again the creative muscles won’t budge for love nor money. As an innovator, creativity is at heart of everything you do, so how can you rejuvenate your creative powers and keep them in tip top shape?
‘Lateral Action’ has a stimulating article that provides six top tips to restore creative fitness and once that’s done, to build up creative endurance.
How are you feeling today? Are your creative cogs lightly greased and turning at full capacity or do they appear to be on a break as you stare at a blank piece of paper wondering where your next genius idea is going to come from?
Every now and again we all need extra dollops of inspiration and motivation to get us firing on all cylinders. So here are ten inspirational quotes about creativity and innovation to keep you on track to achieving your goals.
Professional writers always have to be armed with an arsenal of strategies for overcoming creative lapses, known as writer’s block. Many of those strategies are easily applied to other functions like R&D. Here are a few ideas from the writer’s toolkit.
Take notes
Whether you prefer pen and paper or your smart phone, create a method to record ideas as they come — whether in the lab, in a seminar, on the bus or on a jog. They don’t have to be detailed or refined notes, just enough to shake your memory at a later time.
Periodically, take some time to review and reorganize your notes. You might see where more research is needed. And you never know when an old idea might inspire a new one. Read the rest of this entry »