I also think that there are specific exercises that can make you a lot more creative. I wrote about this once from the perspective of songwriting. Instead of tr

I also think that there are specific exercises that can make you a lot more creative. I wrote about this once from the perspective of songwriting. Instead of trying to write a good song, why not try to write the worst song ever? The silliest song ever? The stupidest song ever? Doing these things challenges you to change your frame, change your perspective. That's what inspires creativity. Chris Rock had a great quote in an interview: "You keep notes. You look for the recurring. What’s not going away? Boy, this police-brutality thing — it seems to be lingering. What’s going to happen here? You don’t even have the joke, you just say, “Okay, what’s the new angle that makes me not sound like a preacher?” Forget being a comedian, just act like a reporter. What’s the question that hasn’t been asked? How come white kids don’t get shot? Have you ever watched television and seen some white kid get shot by accident? > And out of that comes comedy. Comes humor. You laughed right away. I just asked a question that no one had ever asked." http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris-rock-frank-rich-in-conversation.html http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris-rock-frank-rich-in-conv... –– Steve Jobs: "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have." http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html