How do you train creativity?

Question

If such thing is posible of course.Right now I am doing a lot of creative work like writing and drawing and so I was wondering would that increase my creativity?

Answer 1

Creativity can be God-given and it can also be practiced, polished and honed until it is fine tuned. Children are a prime example of how creativity can be taught. Exposure to different mediums, ideas, works of arts often help build a creative base for children to use as a foundation for their own style and ideas.
Often artists mingle with other artists to get their creative juices flowing. Seeing others' works of art can trigger an idea or motivate one into experimenting with a creative line of thinking.
I generally find that energy begets energy--the more I do, the more I can do. Use other art as a springboard to jump-start you during a lull. When reading, reflect on a passage and wonder how you could interpret it differently or better.
Yes you can train creativity just like you can develop good study habits or you learn geometry. It's a way of thinking. Of focusing your inner eye and wondering "What if...."

Answer 2

America has largely been successful because of it's creativity. Creativity in America has been fostered through our liberal arts educational system. From a young age, kids are exposed to general classes in art, music, physical education, social studies, history, sciences, as well as reading and arithmetic. As students age, they get choices of more varieties of electives; perhaps they take a class in photography, or orchestra, or speech, or civics. Creativity is fostered through a robust, and varied liberal arts education. There is little doubt why the most successful research scientists also happen to have an interest in certain styles of art, play an instrument with a community band, or read poetry. While these activities don't directly help in a field as specific as Astrophysics, or Microbiology, they do inspire the human mind to think outside of the box. If you are a teacher or principal, or even a parent in a spot where you can give your input into how schools are set up, pushing for a more varied curriculum will always improve the creativity of the students. If you're talking about fostering your own individual creativity here are some ideas; Take piano, guitar or drum lessons... Start a hobby photographing wildlife in local and regional parks... Join a book-club...

Answer 3

I write short stories and I draw as well and let me tell you honestly music is so powerful in inspiring creativity. All kinds of music whether you hate it or love it, classical or hard rock it all produces a feeling and that I feel is where creativity comes from. You have a mood and you can change it with music, or use it to remember moments about your own life and build on it. Start with personal experience and fantasize from there. What If at that moment I was upset and just wonted to run away from (insert personal experience) what if I had. Where would I have gone, what would be an awesome adventure. Create a story. Even movies I find inspire me to draw different things. You see something you've never seen before or someplace you've never been and if it's interesting to you then its worth considering as an idea for a drawing. Elven village, Dracula's castle, sandy beaches in Ireland, or some alley with interesting bricks and graffiti whatever. Art rocks because you show people what you wont them to see but they form there own feelings and opinions about it.

Answer 4

You can train yourself in doing different styles of art but I've never heard of training to be more creative. That's usually something you either have or don't.

You can create an environment that's more suitable to being creative but that's about it. If possible create a spot that has the stuff that inspires you in it, music, visual things, your favorite teddy bear whatever. Make it what you think is comfortable. Comfort can help release the creativity that's all ready there. If it's a chaotic and uncomfortable place you're trying to work in you can actually have a hard time working. (Unless you dig that kind of thing.)

Hope this helps

Answer 5

i don't know if you can "train", maybe expand by having examples. such as reading more, pushing yourself to read more things that would challenge your mind. for example, i style food for a paper right now. i often feel like i lack creativity, so i look at cookbooks and magazines that show how other people style food for the pictures there. i get lots of ideas, and i can fuse those ideas with what i already do. I say, open your mind to knew ideas, look at other works, and have fun.

Answer 6

It can help but in my life i improved my creativity as i being inspired by others like seeing others work for you to be inspired and improved your creativity.....another way is try to watch some movies that you like or sometimes not , here you will see such things that help you improved.....i hope it helps thats all and i almost forget don't rush yourself just enjoy and be happy in working thats all

Answer 7

Train creativity? No such thing. You either are creative or you are not. You go through creative periods and sometimes run dry. You can't stay creative all the time. It usually flows and ebbs. You can't "train" it.

Answer 8

Keep a note pad by your bed so that if you come up with any good ideas while falling into or out of rem sleep, you can write it down right away before you forget them. Also concentrate on what you are most interested in doing creatively before falling asleep. It may come to you in your dreams.

Answer 9

I think you can "train creativity" by looking at your surroundings and looking at all the littlest of things and see the beauty they contain. Maybe training your creativity can be taking a vacation and seeing different things that give you inspiration.

Answer 10

Get in the habit of thinking of alternative solutions to problems. There are some good examples in the book Conceptual Blockbusting.