The Creativity Challenge

Design, Experiment, Test, Innovate, Build, Create, Inspire, and Unleash Your Genius

Tanner Christensen

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781440588334
• eBook ISBN:
  9781440588341
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Self Improvement

As seen on Inc. com Discover your "Aha" moment--right now!What's the best way to become more creative? Just change how you think! This book challenges you to go against your default ways of thinking in order to write, design, and build something extraordinary. Featuring more than 100 challenges, exercises, and prompts, each page guides you as you push past the way you normally see the world and uncover all-new possibilities and ideas. The Creativity Challenge teaches you that you already have immense creative potential in you--you just need to tap into it.Whether you're feeling stumped or uninspired, these creativity prompts will help you ditch typical thinking patterns and finally unleash the possibilities hidden within your mind.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• How to Use This Book
• 1. People Watch
• 2. List 100 Alternative Uses
• 3. Write about a Unique Situation
• 4. Change One Thing
• 5. Act Like You’re Three Again
• 6. Set an Unrealistic Goal
• 7. Reverse-Brainstorm
• 8. Think Big to Small
• 9. Flip It Around
• 10. Free-Write for 5 Minutes
• 11. Pretend You’re a Cartoon
• 12. Dance
• 13. Find “Invisible Gorillas”
• 14. Change What’s Familiar
• 15. Do Something Completely Different
• 16. Constrain Yourself
• 17. Yes, and Twenty-Five Ideas
• 18. Explain Something Complex to a Child
• 19. Picture the Details
• 20. Go for a Walk
• 21. Stick Your Head in Something Wacky
• 22. Expand Your Focus Frame
• 23. Flip Your Assumptions
• 24. Create a New Design
• 25. Meditate
• 26. Explore Using Your Senses
• 27. Dream Up 100 Scenarios
• 28. Start with an Ending
• 29. Package Yourself
• 30. Get Strangely Curious
• 31. Emulate Inspiration
• 32. Chat with a Noncreative
• 33. Explore What Doesn’t Come Next
• 34. Camouflage Something Around You
• 35. Be Purposefully Boring
• 36. Build Remote Associations
• 37. Go Upside Down
• 38. Create an Idea Chain
• 39. Storyboard Yourself
• 40. Leave It Undone
• 41. Create Something Terrible
• 42. Time Travel
• 43. Focus on First Principles
• 44. Imagine Yourself Far Away
• 45. Help Someone Else
• 46. Write a 100-Line Poem
• 47. Become a Secret Agent
• 48. Backtrack
• 49. Draw with Your Other Hand
• 50. Get Some Sun
• 51. Answer, “What Would ____ Do?”
• 52. Draw a Map Without Landmarks
• 53. Write It Out in Stages
• 54. Draw Your Face Upside Down
• 55. Get 20 Minutes of Extra Sleep
• 56. Spend a Day Smaller
• 57. Role-Play Someone You Know
• 58. Define 100 Steps
• 59. Redesign Time
• 60. Stretch Out
• 61. Find the Most Surprising Frame
• 62. Reinterpret Something You Make
• 63. Answer “Why Not?”
• 64. Know What a Picture Is Worth
• 65. Take a Mini Vacation
• 66. Wake Up 30 Minutes Early
• 67. Ask an Inspiration for Inspiration
• 68. Split Focus with Daydreaming
• 69. Capture a Moment of Motion
• 70. Disconnect Yourself
• 71. Create a Mood Board
• 72. Write Your Story
• 73. Voice-Record Ideas
• 74. Draw Thirty Circles
• 75. Set Aside Time for Creativity
• 76. Connect with a Different Background
• 77. Go Without “I” for a Day
• 78. Break Apart the Steps
• 79. Doodle Something
• 80. Cook Something
• 81. Imitate a Conversation
• 82. Ask “What Could Have Happened?”
• 83. Answer the Six Universal Questions
• 84. Play Descriptive Charades
• 85. Laugh Out Loud
• 86. Write an Everyday Recipe
• 87. Create an Idea Springboard
• 88. Connect Behaviors to Their Emotions
• 89. Create a Blackout Poem
• 90. Change Environments
• 91. Observe Something New
• 92. Finish an Incomplete Doodle
• 93. Act Out a Daydream
• 94. Imagiplain Something
• 95. Bathroom Think
• 96. Copy Someone Else’s Idea
• 97. Ask Without Asking
• 98. Sharpen-Expand Your Focus
• 99. Draw to Mix and Match Parts
• 100. Take a Shower
• 101. Invite an Imaginary Person Over
• 102. Explore What You Already Know
• 103. Write an Imagined Interview
• 104. Picture Pareidolia
• 105. Tune In to Mozart
• 106. Connect to a Favorite Story
• 107. Create New False Beliefs
• 108. Make a Replacement Poem
• 109. Narrow Your Vision
• 110. Create a Mind Sculpture
• 111. Describe the Indescribable
• 112. Take an Opposite Day
• 113. Catch a Movie Ending
• 114. Draw Your Thought Bubble
• 115. Make a Postcard
• 116. Reverse Your Day
• 117. Act Out Dissimilar Situations
• 118. Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
• 119. Solve This Challenge
• 120. Escape Your Pressures
• 121. Connect Random Things
• 122. Find Ten Ways to Do Something Impossible
• 123. Write a Series of “Po”
• 124. Doodle Your Outline
• 125. Ignore Time
• 126. Write Using Malapropisms
• 127. Make Sound-Based Names
• 128. Disprove the Obvious
• 129. Two-Handed Drawing
• 130. Give Yourself an Inspiration Fix
• 131. Speak Only in Rhyme
• 132. Act Out Your Opposite
• 133. Write a Causeand-Effect Chain
• 134. Seek Out Major Colors
• 135. Tune In to a Beginning
• 136. Work on a Problem with a Friend
• 137. Explore Other Cultures
• 138. Draw a Timeline of Your Life
• 139. Two-Minute Doodle Squares
• 140. Over-inspire Your Subconscious
• 141. Teach Yourself to Read Upside Down
• 142. Write a Note from Your Shoes
• 143. Connect a Beginning to an Ending
• 144. Finger-paint Your Emotions
• 145. Listen to Someone Else
• 146. Write About an Absurd Experience
• 147. Help Someone to Think Differently
• 148. Explore What’s Come Before
• 149. Doodle Big
• 150. Create Your Own Challenge
• About the Author
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