How to Make Creative Thinking a Habit
29mGeneral2023-11-15
Authors

Natalie Nixon
Creativity Strategist, Top 50 Keynote Speaker, and Award-Winning Author
Course details
Creativity isn’t a gift that only certain people have: to be human is to be hard wired to be creative. But creative thinking is a skill that’s developed carefully and thoughtfully over time. In this course, creativity expert Natalie Nixon explores the importance of making creative thinking a habit that you can bring into your everyday personal and professional life.
Discover two foundational pieces of creativity: building wonder and rigor as available skills. Learn about opportunities to bring creative thinking into your workflow and adopt a courageous mindset to imagine more creative, innovative ideas, following tactical exercises from Natalie that can help fuel your imagination, wonder, and generative creative thoughts, as well as practical strategies to promote creative thinking, including restraints, rigor sprints, movement, and more. Upon completing this course, you’ll also be prepared to feed your creative thinking by using cutting-edge tools and techniques from generative AI.
Discover two foundational pieces of creativity: building wonder and rigor as available skills. Learn about opportunities to bring creative thinking into your workflow and adopt a courageous mindset to imagine more creative, innovative ideas, following tactical exercises from Natalie that can help fuel your imagination, wonder, and generative creative thoughts, as well as practical strategies to promote creative thinking, including restraints, rigor sprints, movement, and more. Upon completing this course, you’ll also be prepared to feed your creative thinking by using cutting-edge tools and techniques from generative AI.
Skills covered
CreativityGraphic DesignProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Why make creative thinking a habit
1. Creative Thinking Is an Essential Skill
- 02 - Learn the two parts to creativity
- 03 - Audit your work for creative opportunities
- 04 - Build courage to think creatively
- 05 - Use questions to increase creative thinking
2. Tips to Build Wondrous Creative Thinking
- 06 - Build wonder into your workday
- 07 - Two techniques to nurture your imagination
- 08 - Try questionstorming for creative thinking
- 09 - Use movement to generate creative thinking
3. Tips to Build Rigorous Creative Thinking
- 10 - Make time for rigorous creative thought
- 11 - Foster creativity with constraints
- 12 - Add constraints to rigor sprints
4. Creativity in the Age of AI
- 13 - Use AI to inspire and amplify creative thinking
Conclusion
- 14 - Keep up the habit of creative thinking
- 15 - Conclusion
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