From the course: Creativity: Generate Ideas in Greater Quantity and Quality
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Working creative muscles
From the course: Creativity: Generate Ideas in Greater Quantity and Quality
Working creative muscles
- One of the most significant characteristics of play is the ability to marginalize consequences. Practicing problem solving with consequences minimalized, trains us to take risks, something vital to creative growth. As we've established, there are significant similarities between play and creativity, enough so that play can act as creativity surrogate training regimen. If you've ever been to a physical trainer, you know that it's common for a trainer to suggest switching exercises when a particular muscle stops responding to an exercise. The trainer's goal is to keep the body guessing as the body can adapt quickly. Play does the same thing to creativity. It offers a change of purpose while maintaining its structure. And nothing does this better than plays extreme workout improv. Improvisation is the act of on demand creation and reaction. In theater, improv involves actors reacting to each other, the audience or an ad…
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