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Unleash Your Creativity NOW: 8 Practical Exercises You Can Do in 8 Minutes

Fahri Karakas
11 min readJun 21, 2022
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Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us.

If you want to live a happy, productive, and fulfilled life, you need to provide yourself with more opportunities for:

  • Imagination and creativity
  • Curiosity, play, fun, and entertainment
  • Problem solving and idea creation
  • Reflection, note-taking, diary-keeping
  • Asset Creation activities

In other words, you need to scare yourself and challenge yourself each day. Every day is a new adventure. You can perhaps start a small creative project that you have always wanted to do, but you were terrified. You can perhaps start composing music, drawing, singing, dancing, or creating your own fashion line. What does your heart desire? Go for it.

Creativity is a muscle and it can be strengthened through practical exercises and experiments you can easily apply on a daily basis. Creating great ideas is a function of creating lots of ideas and connecting them together. It is not magic — it is just a lot of hard work. To improve your creativity, give your brain…

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Fahri Karakas
Fahri Karakas

Written by Fahri Karakas

Associate Professor in Business & Leadership at University of East Anglia. Passionate about doodling, imagination, and creativity. Author of Self-Making Studio.

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