Here's What You Should Know To Be Creative

After providing an article about the characteristics of creative people, in this article Hipwee will explain the fundamental things you need to know about creativity, as well as how to best manage the various ideas that pop into your head.

1. Always open your eyes, ears, mind and heart

Inspiration, ideas, or creativity can come anytime and anywhere. It can be when you play with your nephew, hang out with your friends, even when you relax in your room.

However, of course ideas and inspiration will not come if you close your eyes, ears, mind and heart. Pay attention to the little things around you, and let your mind wander in search of something interesting about them. Push boundaries (which you often create yourself) with your wild and original ideas.

2. But your creativity does not depend on the size of your IQ

Have you ever had an IQ test yet? Which category do you fall into?

If your IQ is around the average level, there's no need to be discouraged. Your creativity and success doesn't just depend on your IQ! Based on a study entitled Studies of Genius conducted by psychologist Lewis M. Terman, having a super genius IQ does not necessarily make a person super creative.

In other words, you don't have to be a super genius to be creative! There are many other factors that determine a person's creativity.

3. Your creativity can never be forced

What would your answer be if someone asked you about the shape of the cloud procession in the sky? Are the clouds in the form of a layer cake, a bear, an airplane, a goat, or do they look like a crush's face? (cieeeh! who is in love)

Well, this difference in answers proves that creativity cannot be forced. He will also be manifested differently for each person, depending on that person's knowledge, passion, and life experience.

4. It's natural that you are often called crazy because of your ideas

Because the manifestation of creativity from one person to another cannot be generalized, it is natural that many cannot understand the wildness of your imagination. Being said to be crazy, crazy, or insane is one of the things that will accompany your creative ideas.

Remember Nicolas Copernicus who was called crazy when he said the earth revolves around the sun, right?

5. Creative people are the best at seeing connections

Creative people are often famous for their ideas and ideas that are different from others. Everything can be something new after being processed by them. How come? The answer is not that they are able to see connections between “mediocre” things. In addition, they also have the ability to see things from various aspects.

The easiest analogy, of course, is the cloud analogy, as in point 3 above. For those who are less creative, the clouds in the sky are just clouds — at most they can also be a barrier to the sun when it's hot. But in the minds of creative people, the clouds in the sky can be a source for a book story, a beautiful painting, or maybe a poem.

6. Creative People Work Harder Than Others

One thing that is certain and exemplary of creative people is that they always work harder than anyone else.

Researcher Nancy Andreasen discovered this hard work habit while doing research on what creative people do at work. Andreasen assesses that creative people are better able to spend the day with ideas in their heads without feeling tired or bored. The main factor in their creativity is the love for what they do.

7. Creative people are usually self-taught

Creative people are by nature unique people who never stop to think about something (even though they often don't realize it). This also applies to the way they learn things, and usually creative people are self-taught. Rather than just being told, they prefer to find out everything about what interests them.

8. Creative People Won't Stop At One Point

Creative people will not stop working at a certain point. They will be persistent in developing their interests and using their brains to learn everything that relates to their interests.

From a hobby of photography, for example, a creative person will develop his interest in fashion, technology, culinary, anthropology, history, architecture, physics, astronomy to the most appropriate and safe way to disguise and blend with nature (when he became a wildlife photographer). .

9. However, Be Careful With Your Ideas pick your ideas, be reasonable

Because of his expertise in finding relationships between things, it is not surprising that creative people have a million ideas. But having lots of ideas is also dangerous. Creative people must be observant in seeing which ideas can be realized and which ones are not. If you are not observant, energy and time could be wasted on something that cannot actually be realized.

Picking out this idea itself is also a form of creativity, you know. Without creativity, you won't really be able to predict which ideas are more feasible, right?

10. Believe What You Do believe in what you do

After you can choose a brilliant idea that you will work on, the next step is to believe in what you are doing and do it seriously. Your idea may be simple and not very special, but how you make it acceptable to others will then speak for itself.

11. Responses Are Everywhere, Just Prepare Your Mind praise and criticism are everywhere

When you have completed your work and are ready to display it in the wider world, then prepare yourself to receive praise or criticism.

Praise of course makes you excited to make new works again, but still appreciate and thank those who are willing to give criticism. With this criticism, you will see where your shortcomings and mistakes lie so that your next works will be better and bigger.

So, those are 11 things you should know about how to be creative. Continue to develop your talents, interests, abilities and plans, OK?! Don't stop, creative greetings!