How to Think Like a Creative (Every Day)

Updated 6/19/2020

How do you start thinking more creatively when you're not used to it? Try these ideas for thinking more like the creatives of the world.

Start with the nine best ways to boost creative thinking. (Lifehacker)
Check out these tricks for living your life more like the creative geniuses of the world. (Creative Something)
Read some strategies for digging through the information overload to find inspiration. (Fast Company)
Learn the most important word every creative knows. (Medium)
Try this small adjustment to your environment to spark more creativity. (Pacific Standard)
See how actual designers think about challenges they're facing. (Harvard Business Review)
And learn some inside information on what they teach at one of the best design schools in the country, Stanford's d.school. (Core77)
Finally, see how you can incorporate some of this design knowledge into your everyday life—even if you work in a very non-creative career. (Simon Alexander Ong)

Want more? Check out some of our great articles on creative thinking!

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