How To Be More Creative

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Here are a few techniques for generating more creative ideas, and some other good content. I think you'll enjoy this week's newsletter.

Want more creative ideas? Perhaps you want to exercise more creativity in solving problems in your work, or at home. Maybe you just like the thought of being the one with the most interesting ideas the next time you are with a group of friends. Either way, you can quickly generate creative ideas by using a few simple techniques, starting with the following.

1. Change the size of things.

Ask how things could be bigger or smaller and what the advantages would be. How could a refrigerator be smaller, and how would that be useful? Maybe a small, high-power, countertop drink cooler? Put a can of soda in it for a minute, and it's icy cold.

2. Consider opposites.

Suppose that instead of being bad for your teeth, candy was actually good for...

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Despite the many stories, only one alligator has ever been found in the sewer system of New York City - a 125 pound (57 kilogram) alligator was captured by four boys in 1935.

The owner of a South Korean movie theater owner thought the movie The Sound of Music was too long - so he shortened the movie by cutting out the musical scenes!

The top row of letters on a keyboard is "QWERTYUIOP." What's the longest word you can make using just those letters? (You can use the letters more than once.) "Property" is one, but there are longer ones.

Riddle Answer: Repertoire has 10 letters, and there may be longer ones (let me know).

Sushant and Andrew each e-mailed me to add "typewriter" to the list (thank you) with 10 letters. Potpourri has 9 letters (thanks Aaditya).

What always ends everything?

(The answer is at the bottom of the page)

Believe you are smarter, and you'll become smarter. For this, affirmations may work, but even better is seeing evidence. Make a note of your successes. Tell yourself, "Hey, that was really creative," when you do something creative. When you have a good idea, make a note of it. Gather the evidence for your own intelligence and you'll start to experience more of it.

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If you could learn fast and effectively, you might become the person with something interesting to say on any topic. It also can help you in your career or business. You can learn more efficiently. Just use a few of the following techniques, and use them until they become habit.

First, when you want to learn new material, expose your mind to it as soon as possible, even before you feel "ready," or have time to study. This first stage of learning is the confusing part where you look at new ideas and say, "huh?" If you do this quickly, however, reviewing everything for a few minutes, your unconscious mind will start "incubating" the new concepts, and finding some way to...

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Until next time,

Steve

www.IncreaseBrainpower.com

Riddle Answer: The letter "g".

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