Creative Exercises to Spark Original Thinking

Ignite your creative spark. Explore 20 short exercises to build your creative habits, refresh your inspiration, and dispel your inhibitions.

Introduction

• Ignite your creative spark

1. Move Past Creative Blocks

• Introduction
• Liberate an initial plan
• Refresh ideas with creative magic
• Generate new ideas with repeat patterns
• Let go of perfection
• Respond to new starting points

2. Strengthen Connection for Authentic Ideas

• Introduction
• Enhance everyday tasks
• Create variations through deconstruction
• Fresh approaches to seeing
• Gleaning order from chaos
• Own your idea from the start

3. Move Beyond Habitual Thinking

• Introduction
• Collaborate to build relationships
• Creative catalysts for moving forward
• Choose alternative viewpoints
• Work without a plan: Improvising
• Honor awkwardness: Engaging your brain

4. Visions and Revisions

• Introduction
• Rewrite an old story
• Choose what to accept and reject
• Rearrange the familiar
• Morph to move beyond a single idea
• Shift perspective to envision new worlds

Conclusion

• Next steps: Change it up