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What are some ways to help be more creative?
by Roger Brown » Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:26 am
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Exposing yourself to new areas you have not dealt with before helps broaden your knowledge base. I will wander Lowes, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Toys R Us routinely looking at all the products in the store. I will also pick a store I have never been in before such as a paint store or a stone and tile store to see if anything sparks my interest.
One exercise I do daily is to randomly pick a subject for that day and no matter what else I am working on I write down as many ways you can improve on that subject. I find that after a while I will have things pop into my head without really concentrating on the subject. Todays subject is shovels.
One exercise I do daily is to randomly pick a subject for that day and no matter what else I am working on I write down as many ways you can improve on that subject. I find that after a while I will have things pop into my head without really concentrating on the subject. Todays subject is shovels.
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Re: What are some ways to help be more creative?
by citizen » Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:00 pm
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I like to look at different designs in different genres and see how they could work in other genre. For example, take a walk in a hardware store and look at some tools and other products and think how they could be evolved or influence a kitchen product.
I also like to look at the evolution of products and see how and why they've changed and see how others haven't changed much.
I think an inventor needs to look at what can be rather than what is. We don't look at things for their face value. We see shapes, form, and function as three different parts of an item. They each have their own value, but change one of them, and who knows what you'll get.
Jason
I also like to look at the evolution of products and see how and why they've changed and see how others haven't changed much.
I think an inventor needs to look at what can be rather than what is. We don't look at things for their face value. We see shapes, form, and function as three different parts of an item. They each have their own value, but change one of them, and who knows what you'll get.
Jason
Re: What are some ways to help be more creative?
by ATtheLake » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:41 pm
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The few things I could say are these:
My creativity seems to flow naturally, so maybe I am blessed. Sometimes be over creative is also bad though as well as it might lead you believe in something that simply is not true.
Creativity for me, comes from just simply, hard to define sources of thought patterns or questioning things for myself... Recently I had an idea for something related to the electrical power type products; by that (without being specific) I mean controls, switches, outlet covers, circuit breakers etc. Something we all use everyday in our homes at our places of work and so forth. Electricity is something we all depend on everyday for nearly all that we do...The market is basically worldwide and pry not going away. My point is if you look at most electrical products they are nearly all the same (which for standard/code and safety reasons is absolutely necessary, no argument about it!) My idea stemed from just simply being different from the normalcy of standardization. Which there are various different brands/styles/unique products that are offered in this type of industry, but for the most part it is very standardized. Not that Iam saying my idea for this particular product is a smash hit and will revolutionize the electrical market, but there is definitely a submarket for uniqueness and difference from the standard beyond what is available currently. After a few hours worth of research, I found a few competitors with like minded ideas that aren't patented and aren't selling millions a year; but definitely have a market. Their products are similar to my own (idea) but different enough to not be called the same. There pry is a legitimate market there for this type of innovation. As I heard a very famous CEO once say, "people want to spend money and buy new innovative products, if they don't they feel like they are missing out." Just food for thought, I have enough on my plate currently and maybe I will pursue it and maybe not... Either way my point being.. Creativity can stem from anywhere.
I often and have since I was a teenager walked isles of stores and compared products; visualized why the products are like this vs. that. I have listened to complaints from other people about how a task would be made easier with this or that vs. what is readily available. Anything can spark creativity. I can see something on tv and it sparks it because I saw it a different way than was intended because of my own thinking or even because I am hard on hearing a bit, I might have misheard something and it made me think about it a different way, etc.
I also agree with Roger on seeing something in a store one has never been too and picking up some things or maybe seeing something in a different light. This happens to me especially when I go to bigger cities on travel and see new ways of presentation, marketing, products, service etc. vs. where I am located which is of reasonable size. My town is in Top 100 cities in USA. Creativity most of the time for myself doesn't happen by just staring at something and thinking differently about it (although it can) i often might use it, reflect upon it, use it in a different environment with different variables etc. and here and there I might come up with some creative thoughts about it. It would be impossible for myself to say it happens every second of everyday though...
My creativity seems to flow naturally, so maybe I am blessed. Sometimes be over creative is also bad though as well as it might lead you believe in something that simply is not true.
Creativity for me, comes from just simply, hard to define sources of thought patterns or questioning things for myself... Recently I had an idea for something related to the electrical power type products; by that (without being specific) I mean controls, switches, outlet covers, circuit breakers etc. Something we all use everyday in our homes at our places of work and so forth. Electricity is something we all depend on everyday for nearly all that we do...The market is basically worldwide and pry not going away. My point is if you look at most electrical products they are nearly all the same (which for standard/code and safety reasons is absolutely necessary, no argument about it!) My idea stemed from just simply being different from the normalcy of standardization. Which there are various different brands/styles/unique products that are offered in this type of industry, but for the most part it is very standardized. Not that Iam saying my idea for this particular product is a smash hit and will revolutionize the electrical market, but there is definitely a submarket for uniqueness and difference from the standard beyond what is available currently. After a few hours worth of research, I found a few competitors with like minded ideas that aren't patented and aren't selling millions a year; but definitely have a market. Their products are similar to my own (idea) but different enough to not be called the same. There pry is a legitimate market there for this type of innovation. As I heard a very famous CEO once say, "people want to spend money and buy new innovative products, if they don't they feel like they are missing out." Just food for thought, I have enough on my plate currently and maybe I will pursue it and maybe not... Either way my point being.. Creativity can stem from anywhere.
I often and have since I was a teenager walked isles of stores and compared products; visualized why the products are like this vs. that. I have listened to complaints from other people about how a task would be made easier with this or that vs. what is readily available. Anything can spark creativity. I can see something on tv and it sparks it because I saw it a different way than was intended because of my own thinking or even because I am hard on hearing a bit, I might have misheard something and it made me think about it a different way, etc.
I also agree with Roger on seeing something in a store one has never been too and picking up some things or maybe seeing something in a different light. This happens to me especially when I go to bigger cities on travel and see new ways of presentation, marketing, products, service etc. vs. where I am located which is of reasonable size. My town is in Top 100 cities in USA. Creativity most of the time for myself doesn't happen by just staring at something and thinking differently about it (although it can) i often might use it, reflect upon it, use it in a different environment with different variables etc. and here and there I might come up with some creative thoughts about it. It would be impossible for myself to say it happens every second of everyday though...
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