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- P e r s o n a l _ C r e a t i v i t y -

What Stimulates Your Creativity?

Responses were varied ... from exercise such as walking or jogging ... to taking a nap ... to "strong psychedelics." Powerful emotions such as being sad or depressed vied with distracting activities such as taking a shower or driving as the leading stimuli. Quite a few people found mowing the lawn a creative turn-on!

Here's a list of some stimulating activities mentioned by the group. Try one or more of these ideas the next time you need to stimulate your creativity.

• brainstorming sessions with brilliant people attending a conference
• spending time with people who make me feel good
• being involved in an activity I love experiencing beautiful, moving, or otherwise stimulating parts of the world
• viewing good art work, reading an entertaining piece of fiction, seeing natural beauty, or going to a good movie
• long drives
• deep meditation
• visiting a highly-loaded environment (bookstore, epicurean supply house, antique store, junk yard, etc.) with a question/problem to be solved in mind
• scuba diving
• pondering, real genuine pondering
• drifting off to sleep
• vigorous walking in cool air
• reading about some political or financial outrage in the paper
• weeding the vegetable garden
• boredom
• classical music
• prolonged periods of personal pain or discomfort
• immersion in pictorial images
• putting it in writing
• transcontinental flights

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