How Do You Derive the Next Brilliant Idea?

Start with coming up with more ideas, write them down, and save for later prioritization, and analysis of the best ones.

Here are some ways to build a better list:

Practice, practice, practice

Most of what we know, we didn’t learn in school. We learned it in the real world, actually doing, not reading, or listening to about doing.

Confucius once said: I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

He appreciated that being a creator was the best way to build ideas. Make your learning be active learning and be creators as often as possible. We believe this the most critical of the ways to improve your creativity.

Create curiosity

If we have the guts to think about what we don’t know, confuse our learning, perplex ourselves, and evoke real questions, we can create curiosity. This curiosity can be used to tailor robust methods of blended learning and creativity. Curiosity must come first. Questions can be fantastic windows to great learning, but not the other way around. Build your skill of curiosity … it is a necessity for good learning as well as creativity.

Practice imagination

Albert Einstein once said: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take…