This excellent New York Times article ‘How to Be Creative‘ provides many hints to boost our creativity.
Some steps are discussed:
- Give yourself permission to tap into your thoughts, dreams and imaginations
- Feel confident
- Foster creativity through parenting
- allow yourself to be imperfect
The special recommendation about fostering creativity through parenting is though-provoking. It means to emulate children’s unbounded creativity of course. It also has an interesting component around fostering creativity by relating to other creative people.
And I think this is the key: being creative alone has limitations. Creativity in a group of creative people – if possible of diverse origins and creative orientations – is the way to be effectively creative, and create something real.
