Today am back with some tips on how to be creative.
According to Gillmartin in 1999 "critivity is the basic building block of invention and thus innovation.''
Looking at the challenges presented to us by the current world situation it demands that every member of this global village should be creative in thinking. Everyone will like to put something in his life that will keep him alive even after his death.
To have that creative mind one should have the ability to think more than the average man. And to have that critical thinking capacity you should develop a broad base of knowledge. This knowledge base include information on your discipline in areas science or technology and areas of psychology and philosophy to have some logic.
But the handles come because of the following points which one has to break:
1. Habits- we all have some old habits which we need to change, modify or discard. for one to be creative he need to think outside the box
2. Fear of making mistakes- one needs to understand that as human are prone to make mistakes, but the good part of it is what should we do after making mistakes. We must be daring in our lives, and in case we err we should learn from our mistakes, that is we should be curious about how the mistake occur and try to find out the ways to prevent them from reoccurring and find a solution to them. Only a hungry mind grows
3. Tradition - Because one or more people had been doing it in a way doesn't mean we have to follow it that way. To be creative in my life we have to break some rules. Following routines doesn't guarantee us from not making mistakes. Try to find new and exciting ways of doing things different from others
4. Comfort with the status quo - nothing good grows in a comfort zone, always try to be uncomfortable ina comfort zone because good things doesn't happen on themselves, we need to get up and put down something to get something up.
5. Using meaningless routines and rituals - you can believe with me that we have been been using things in such a way that we can't deduce meaning out it, why not we try to do it in a way that we understand and give it meaning?
6. Rigid mindset - yes we have that rigid mindset in our minds that we believe we can't change, people especially in Africa are resistant to change. But everyone believes and see that things are changing always. The rule here should be if you can't change a situation why not change yourself, I believed once we change the the way we view this world even for a second we can be able to some good things.