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10 principles to help you rewire your brain and supercharge your creative output
What’s the master key to unlocking 10x creativity? A radical level of mental openness that changes how your brain is wired and supercharges the quality of your creative output.
Radical openness manifests itself in a number of profound ways that go well beyond what the average person thinks of as “creativity.”
They can be divided into two “hemispheres” — internal openness, which encompasses the mysterious realm of the mind, and external openness, which focuses on stimuli in our outside environment that can serve as creative catalysts.
Let’s take a closer look.
Internal openness
Openness to investing time in problem definition
Most people jump to the fun part of the creative process — brainstorming. But that’s usually counterproductive because it causes you to pick at symptoms or generate solutions for the wrong problem. A more effective approach is to first clearly define the problem.
Often, this involves deconstructing it into its elements. In the process, a solution may suggest itself.
