Learn a creative skill like cooking, drawing, painting, or sculpting. For me - I always tend to see my art as a metaphor to programming. Each step in the proces

Learn a creative skill like cooking, drawing, painting, or sculpting. For me - I always tend to see my art as a metaphor to programming. Each step in the process is a small function, and each finished piece (meal, painting, etc) is like a working program. Sometimes it needs to be refactored, other times it's fine as it is. A lot of programmers I know don't have a creative side to them. The programmers and engineers I respect the most all have a unique and creative outlook on life, which shows in their CS work.