The Creative Mind What You Need to Know?

 


  The orthodox belief is that freedom fuels creativity. When you have artistic independence without notions or guidelines limiting your creativity, you are considered to have the optimal environment to come up with brilliant ideas. However, this concept may be a bit intimidating and overwhelming if you are anything like me. I find that unlimited possibilities limit my ability to create anything. There is an infinite number of things I can do, and in the end, I feel overwhelmed with the number of options. If you share this feeling, don’t feel bad—we are not the only ones! I have read several articles discussing the correlation between boundaries and creativity and how a healthy balance of restrictions can fuel people's creative genius.

         I read a story of a German car manufacturer Audi was looking to improve its Le Man’s race car performance, the chief engineer presented his team with a constraint. He asked his team how they could win the race if their car couldn’t go faster than anyone else. In other words, he challenged his engineers to find a way to improve the car’s performance without increasing the vehicle’s top speed (the limitation). This self-imposed constraint forced the engineers to think outside of the box. Since they couldn’t increase the speed, they decided that making fewer pit stops during the race would put them ahead of the opponents if their car could go longer without having to refuel.

       How could they make fewer pit stops? If they had a more fuel-efficient car. How could they make the car more fuel-efficient? Use diesel technology. As a result of this process, Audi came up with its R10 TDI race car that ended up winning Le Man’s for the next three years straight! All because of a limitation that pushed the engineers to find a different solution that they normally wouldn’t think about. Now what is creativity? how does this creativity enable our thought process? Can everyone be creative? These are questions that need to be asked.

The Creative Mind What You Need to Know?

  • §     The Creative Mind Is Playful and Disciplined
  • §     A Creative Person Is Realistic and Imaginative
  • §     A Creative Person Is Smart and Naïve
  • §     The Creative Mind Is Extroverted and Introverted
  • §     A Creative Person Is Proud and Modest
  • §     The Creative Mind Is Masculine and Feminine
  • §     The Creative Mind Is Passionate and Objective
  • §     A Creative Person Is Sensitive and Joyful

If you are in a creative field or in any way required to come up with ideas and solutions to different challenges all the time, constraints are not always your enemy. A healthy balance of project restrictions can act as guidelines to streamline your creativity without being overwhelmed by the infinite other possibilities that can haunt you.

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