Chapter 17

Becoming More Creative

In This Chapter

arrow Increasing your ability to be creative

arrow Calling up ideas from deep within your mind

arrow Finding a good idea quickly

arrow Using highly creative visualizations

arrow Getting past creative blocks

Creativity is the force that drives new music, art, and inventions; it seems to well up from deep within you and often suddenly spills out when you least expect it. Creativity is an elusive beast that you can’t tame and subjugate to your will, and thank goodness you can’t, because tamed creativity would probably end up rather bland and uninspiring.

Some people find that drawing on creativity is difficult, whereas others appear to have an ever-flowing abundance. Why is that? Where does creativity come from, and if you aren’t very creative, what can you do to become more so?

Creativity is all about: taking something and changing it into something new. But to be able to carry out this re-creation, you need to have a wide range of source material from which to draw, ...

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