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The Remedy Yourself Creativity page. You may
not believe you're the most talented person, but anyone can be creative. Learn how to unlock your creative potential below.
Please read this first.
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Take a sheet of paper. Pick a topic and write it at the top. Now
write down as many words as you can that come to mind when you
think of that topic, no matter how unrelated. Don't use a
dictionary. Make up words if you like.
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Do a painting or a collage. Try ot use as many things from
around the house as possible. Don't be afraid to use your hands
and other things lying around.
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Forgotten what it means to "play" ? Take one non-electrical
object (like a comb). Now pretend with it. What stories do you
come up with?
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Take the same object and write a story about what it would be
like to be one.
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Linked brainstorming: write a word, then another word related
to it, and another word related to that, and so on until you have
covered a page with words. Notice how different or similar your
beginning and ending words are.
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Draw a picture of an alien. Don't use any of the common
conceptions: green skin, antennae, or figures from science fiction
shows. What would the alien be doing?
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Think of a wacky gift you could give each of your family
members or close friends.
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Think of an invention on your own, something very useful.
Then invent something utterly useless.
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What would you wish for if you could have a single wish? What
if you couldn't wish for more wishes? What if you could?
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Write a poem. You can - just take 10 random words out of a
dictionary. Now put them together so they make sense to you.
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Find a person. Imagine you are that person. What would you
do? What would you do if you were President? If you had been
Hitler? If you were Gandhi?
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Get a small box. Write THINK on the outside. Now think
about what "thinking outside the box" means.
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Instead of saying "Hi" to everyone as you usually do, what
else could you say? How many different things could you say? Try
them all.
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Break down a problem: there are usually three or four main
components. What order are they in? Does A come before C and
C before B? Or do C and B both come from A? Or is A completely
unrelated? Is there a D? E? Z?
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Stuck for ideas? Write down the coolest idea you can think of.
Spell it backwards. Find its opposite meaning. Rearrange the
letters. Do the same thing with an object in the room. Think of
objects that AREN'T in the room.
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Be spontaneous. Send your best friend a cake. Write your wife
a love letter.
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Keep a pad of paper and pen next to your bed at night. Think
of ideas as you go to sleep.
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Whenever you write, don't erase. Cross out with a single line
if you have to. Use the words you thought you didn't mean to
write.
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Play this game: start with twenty quenstions (guess the word
in twenty questions). Then a each guess, make up a new rule for
the game. Keep going until someone guesses the word or you run
out of ideas! (For example, the word to guess is turkey. First
question: is it living? yes. New rule: if you answer yes, you have
to do a cartwheel. Second question: is it an insect? no. New rule:
If there is no question in 5 seconds, the questioner has to say all the questions backwards. etc...)
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Sit around with others and each write a sentence on a piece of
paper, every person only seeing a few words of the previous
sentence and making up something to continue the story. See
how it turns out - a really creative, funny story!
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