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Psychological distance and being creative

A new report on Scientific American has confirmed what many of us naturally realised, you can be more creative if you ‘distance’ yourself from the situation. Read the article for the science and some practical ideas.

An Easy Way to Increase Creativity: Scientific American

Comments

  1. That is so true. I have a book review deadline this coming week and I need to stand back and be an on-looker about it. yep! Good advice and the boost I think that just might get me started on it. And the start – or angle is really all I need, just liek getting the idea for a song, even if it’s only one line that I’ll build upon.

    Cool!

  2. darren says:

    It is so easy to get too close to something and then get frustrated when we don’t get anywhere. I think this will be my mantra for a while… ‘take a step back’.

    Thanks for the comment

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