Six keys to train our creativity

We often get defeats and we think that creativity of others is something. But in reality there was a time when we all applied in the same way to create, find out new things, to cultivate and transform our events into something that seemed valuable to us: we all had a imagination of children, we played thousands of times, says the neurologist Monica Kurtis, who in the book ‘Larese’ Larse ‘Larose Your Yourse, who Larous’ Larousness’ Larous Yourse, who’ Larous Your Yourse, who ‘Larous Your Yourse, who’ Larous Your Yourse, who ‘Larous Your Yourse,’ Larous Yourse ‘Larous ‘Larousse’ Larousse ‘Larousse’ Larousse ‘Larousse’ Larousse ‘Larousse’ Larousse ‘Larousse’ Larousse ‘Larousse’ had. “The brain is plastic,” he remembers, “can be renovated, all the basis to exercise it, we strengthen connections between neurons that facilitate things. It is as if you go to the optical fiber between the brain networks involved in creativity».

This double training actually requires, because in creativity two involved networks that are largely opposed and that are in continuous interaction. The one is the so -ly -standing standard network, which works when we ourselves are -GEBSTORBED, we abstrem our mind vaguely from one issue to another: it is at that time when the creative solution comes to mind, what Kurtis calls the ‘Eureka moment’. The other is the Executive Network, that plans and curd, so that this inventive spark develops and acquires form. «The executive network, which I call ‘elbows’, is more ‘easy’ to train, because these are care issues, mental flexibility, working memory … The ‘Eureka network’, the ‘shower moment’, is more difficult to work as such: what we have to do is give it, find times for that to happen, Something that has Become very complicated in this world without Moments of Disconnection ». Here are some Kurtis tips to set up a good gym for our creativity.

Store ideas: they are doors for the future

It is essential to have a warehouse with good ideas, a notebook (or a text file or an app from the mobile) where the things that come to us or attract our attention. «We must ask ourselves questions. We go around the world and there are things that attract our attention: they have to go to the warehouse, even if we don’t know why they attract us. An appointment that we read on Instagram, the form of some clouds, a child who talks to his father … has imprisoned us something and can open the door to things ». From time to time you have to view these annotations and some will be unveiled useful.

Planning: chaos, for geniuses

We all have our biorhyths, our best and worse moments during the day. Well, the first, that of fullness, are ideal for the executive network to work, while the most ‘low’ times lend themselves to that decentralization that gives rise to lighting. As Julio Cortázar said, “You must allow yourself to distract yourself when you cannot concentrate.” Routines must be determined that save energy and glucose and oxygen may be possible for our mind. «Chaos can work for some geniuses that make marathons of creativity, but others must organize themselves. And moreover, in those routines we have to propose times of walk, observation, the consumption of creativity … », Kurtis.

Walk: It’s much better than looking at the roof

Physical exercise gives wings to the imagination: for this purpose, walking better than running, because it does not use so many energy sources. A study with Stanford University students showed that creativity improves. «Even walking tires were invented with a kind of desktop to take notes while using them. If you ask someone a problem and you start walking for ten minutes, more solutions will take place than when you leave it in a room that looks at the roof. The exercise can be meditative to a certain extent, of observation of the world and also of introspection, ”explains the neurologist.

Copy and so you will have high mentors

It may sound ugly, but it is an exceptional gymnastics for the brain: copying a painting by Van Gogh or a text by Francisco Umbral is a way to study them deeply. «This allows you to discover why you admire them. You step into your head, in your method, and you learn what you feel comfortable and what prefer different. When imitating the people you admire, they become your mentors, “says Kurtis. At the same time, horizon needs to be expanded: ask someone to trust something that you like (a book, a film, an exhibition) and that is outside your comfort zone. And always, if something caught your attention, invest it: find it on internet information about it and let you drag through curiosity.

Plant yourself small creativity challenges

There are many exercises to train the neural networks involved in creativity. A classic is the test of alternative use: to think about two possible applications for a daily object, by extravagants that sound. Or look for a word in the dictionary, for example, and focus our next creative exercise on it.

Get bolt … and let your children be bored

Every time we do less. Mónica Kurtis even proposes ‘schedule’ Bordom, that is, plan empty times, such as resistance to those customs of our century that encourage us to constantly do things. “We live complex times for the survival of the standard neuronal network,” the neurologist complains. “Children,” he adds, “you have to be in the process of promoting their imagination. Creativity is a method to solve a problem on an individual level. The boy who has the problem to get bored, has to solve it creatively, think about what he is doing. And if we leave you, you will find a way to entertain.