The document outlines various strategies to unleash creativity, emphasizing the need to find inspiration and surround oneself with excellence. It advocates for taking action with creativity, practicing continuously, and crossing creative boundaries while managing distractions. Additionally, it warns against the limiting effects of amusement and advises ignoring negative feedback to foster creative expression.

1. Unleashing your Inner Creativity
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The one factor that perhaps suppresses creativity is the compelling need to conform.
Conformity often turns us into robotic beings performing the same mundane tasks in
a cyclic manner.However, each of us does have this creative ‘sweet spot’ or ‘sweet
zone’ which sometimes needs a way out amidst the stressful living and working
conditions that we are subjected to.

2. If you want to bring forth our creativity then you’re going to have to follow some steps:
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● Find your inspiration: Your muse will show you the path to creativity. People
need to tune into what inspires them as they often do not know what it is. Your
inspiration can stem out of a memory, nature, music or even from people. Once
you identify your inspiration, you don’t have to wait to be inspired as your
creativity gets activated on demand.

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● Allow excellence to surround you: Often one discovers their favorite music
by not just listening to talented singers but in fact finding out who they listen to.
If you want to achieve greatness then for starters you’re going to have to
surround yourself with great art, great music and great literature and most
importantly great people. Incorporating from others what you find to be great
cannot be defined as ‘copying’ but should rather be defined as ‘inspiration’.

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● Put your creativity into action: If you do not do so then you will not be able to
ignore your creativity. Your creativity must be used and not stored else it will rust
over time. People should open themselves up to situations that require their
creativity and practice their art continuously. Nowadays there are a number of
online courses available that teach individuals how to unleash their creativity.
When people begin their results or produce will rarely match their desired
results.However, practice makes perfect and people should keep working upon
their creativity until it matches the mental image in their head.

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● Cross creative barriers: Creative arts always parallel each other. Creativity
drawn from one sphere of art can definitely influence another.Hence, it’s not
uncommon to find that great musicians are often great painters and writers as
well. It’s easy to gain confidence in one sphere of creativity and apply to
another with profitable results.

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● Don’t let amusement limit your creativity: Amusement often saps creativity
because it is the opposite of thought or inspiration. Small amounts of
amusement are definitely healthy but over saturating oneself with it turn is
detrimental to creativity. Television and movies should be used to expand
imagination and not replace it. Television requires little thought or creativity and
hence is used by most people to get their minds off things. A little bit of
amusement should be incorporated into one’s lifestyle to trigger
imagination/creativity and not to kill it.

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● Keep distractions to the minimum: More work can be done in a few hours if
one is focused as opposed to if their mind goes wandering. Physical and
environmental distractions always destroy the creative process. Creativity is
always built upon quality rather than quantity so one must make sure that
external factors are not limiting one’s creativity.

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● Turn a deaf ear to the naysayers: When creativity is being expressed the
individual often has to open up. This makes him vulnerable to scrutiny and
judgment. In every sphere of life there will be discouraging critics who will build
themselves up by pushing others down. The trick is to avoid them and follow
your creative interests.