33 Ways To Stay Creative

Jun 6, 2011

33 Ways To Stay Creative

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72 Comments, Comment or Ping

Jamey

I like this list. Im going to print it out and make a couple of minor adjustments and get started.

Dec 4th, 2011
Jim

The notebook thing really helps.

Read The Pinned Castle.

Feb 5th, 2012
Nate

Finish something? How about a piece of turkey finished in gold?! http://trendland.net/color-your-food-with-food-finish

Feb 7th, 2012
Christine Adnani

I love this. I’m printing it out!! It’s great to have stuff like this to be motivated.

Thank you =D

Feb 10th, 2012
Ink Cartridge Remanufacturing Supplies

I feel like this list is very cliche. Some things on the list will work, but a lot of it is just using keywords that seem to be chosen at random by going to the self-help section of the bookstore or library. The wording is just overused to the max.

Feb 13th, 2012
Kaitlin

best.list.i.have.ever.read.

Feb 17th, 2012
Robin Coyle

Since I love lists, I love the fact that the first thing on this lists is “Make Lists”

Feb 19th, 2012
Claire

Great list, I always carry a notebook but am still working on finishing things!

Feb 21st, 2012
Kon

I dont think this list we really help you be creative, there are some ideas on there that i agree with but most of it is nonsense

Feb 21st, 2012
Tobe

“Watch foreign movies” – Shut up. Watch good movies and remember that not all good movies are from your country.

“Drink coffee or tea” – This will only make you look like you’re the creative type, it won’t actually do anything. If you want to be more creative:
Next time you crave coffee or tea, write your friend a letter or play some ukulele.

“Listen to new music” – This will also just make you appear more creative. Come on, just listen to more experimental music if you want to be creative. Listen to Henry Flynt, Barn Owl and Hank Williams.

“Practice, Practice, Practice” – Try improvising instead. If you play an instrument already, try recording some improvisations with yourself or others. Practice your improvisation skills.

Mar 2nd, 2012
Tom

`”Be Otherwordly”? How shall I go about doing that? Any suggestions?

Mar 4th, 2012
Den

Well done, a great list, thank you

Mar 5th, 2012
snowball

Most all of these are great,but I really like the one that tells you to do more of what makes you happy and to finish something.

Mar 7th, 2012
sarah

I lol’d at the bits from incubus lyrics in there.

Mar 10th, 2012
Silkstream

With the invention of smartphones and other electronic mobile devices, does anyone carry a notebook around with them anymore? Surely notebooks are about as useful as wristwatches?

Mar 20th, 2012
Pattee Flwetcher

I think that lists are a great way to help us “get a hold” of something, be it an idea, a behavior change, and so on. But 33! By the time I finished, I felt less than creative – it was imposing, then tedious, then banal.

Mar 20th, 2012
Selwa Luke

This is a great list. I love #15. I just did a post on my blog about collaboration and the creative process: http://www.solacesing.com/2012/03/songwriting-tip-2-collaborate/. Would love to get more feedback on that. “Don’t force it” is definitely another good one. It’s a lesson I need to learn as a writer and songwriter.

Mar 22nd, 2012
Connie Ashpole

This is on my wall – it helps me stay positive every day!

Mar 22nd, 2012
Brooke

Great list! Thank you for the inspiration!!!

Mar 29th, 2012
Katie Martin

I’ve seen this list before a while ago, but I forgot how much I like it. There are definitely a large amount of these things that I really did during my college years, and those were my most creative years for sure. This list makes me want to try and add more of these back into my life. Getting to integrate creativity into my life always makes me feel like I get more out of my day and also of my experience. That must be the artistic and musically driven side of me. I think strangely the hardest thing for me would probably be not being hard on myself. I think I’m going to make a slightly revised list that best applies to me, which would be a good thing for most people to do.

Apr 3rd, 2012
HelpingAllNeeds

Do more of what makes you happy!! <3

Apr 3rd, 2012
xisney

This is a great list. I think the “Watch Foreign Films” is more about expanding your horizons and experiencing new (to you) expressions of creativity instead of simply watching foreign films. I don’t suggest Singing in the Shower if your apartment is like mine and everyone can hear you – unless you’re into that sort of thing. I’d prefer everyone was spared the experience of me singing in the shower.

Apr 17th, 2012
Vedette

Yeah, just keep doing what you like to do more.

Apr 19th, 2012
cynic

“Drink coffee/tea.”

And . . . what exactly does this accomplish? Other than living into some stereotype of what “creative” people do, of course.

Apr 24th, 2012
Aydan

I just came across this. I love it!

Apr 27th, 2012
fran

TOBE you are very stupid.
Great page.

Apr 27th, 2012
Aidy

What a wonderful list. It’s always nice to find such positive inspiration.

Apr 28th, 2012
Steve

I’m about to finish my beer. How’s that for creative?

Apr 29th, 2012
MagnetismSkin

This is great! I love how this list deliberately shows the futility of our attempts to quantify creativity. Just look how it takes advice with genuine socio-psychological efficacy like “surround yourself with creative people” and juxtaposes it with vapid or nonsensical advice like “be otherworldly”, “drink coffee”, or “count your blessings”. Ha ha! Count your blessings? What does that even mean in this context? Ha ha ha, I don’t know!

Until this list came along I never realized the impossibility of giving concrete advice on being creative when it’s ultimately an abstract and unconscious process specific to an individual, unless of course you read a page in the dictionary and then the brain orgasms just start flowing. Thanks list maker, whoever you are.

May 1st, 2012
Sara Marquez

I will need to remember this…always!

May 1st, 2012
Rebecca

I think it’s funny how number four is “get away from the computer”.
I found this on the computer…

May 2nd, 2012
Drako Hallumus

Hmmm, I feel like I have seen this one before…. oh, right!http://www.mobypicture.com/user/therealhuubkoch/view/9690239/

May 3rd, 2012
amr hossary

play sports

May 3rd, 2012
DannyZippers

I do more of what makes me happy, which is looking at garbage. No really. I love garbage. Check out my inspiration: http://www.duallservices.com/blog

May 3rd, 2012
Frederique Bros

great post, you should check my article about: how to boost your creativity, you will learn few tips and have a laugh
http://www.womenlovetech.com/how-to-boost-your-creativity/

May 5th, 2012
curtis allen

Good advice !

May 5th, 2012
edward

http://www.alkitab.be
it gives you some help about how to chang your life

May 6th, 2012
The Vampire

Love this list. But the only thing that i can master is the Rule 24.

May 7th, 2012
Derick Wade

For those of you who commented negatively about this list, posting that it’s “cliche” or “nonsense”: your comments sound like a thousand other comments I’ve read across the web. Which makes YOUR comments cliche, trite,unoriginal.

If you’re going to criticize someone’s work, at least have the CREATIVITY to suggest some ideas of your own.

May 7th, 2012
Chihuahua0

The way Rule 24 is indented is clever. It plays with the medium, which is another good way to get the creative juices going.

May 7th, 2012
Jeffro

34. Listen to Nels Cline Singers
35. Don’t talk for an entire day

May 7th, 2012
Sara Marquez

These rules are what we should live our lives by.

May 8th, 2012
Lipstick

I like this list, maybe will help me write about new things…and I am really in need of that.

May 12th, 2012
Angela

I so need to practice these tips more often, especially getting away from the computer!

May 12th, 2012
Habeeb

Check out amazinf facebook status and quotes about life in general

http://blogging-lyfe.blogspot.in

May 16th, 2012
viajedora

This makes sense.

May 16th, 2012
(,@_@,)

“4. get away from the computer”

This item makes little sense to me. Computers can be used for creative expression. If you are using the computer to create something, should you take a break from being creative to go be creative? Without someone sitting in front of a computer, a large amount of creative content would not exist, including this website. I could go on, but choose to stop here.

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May 18th, 2012
Belinda

Love this list!

May 21st, 2012