How to unleash your creativity

Read a very good article on Scientific America.

Some of the key take aways were
* Creativity can be developed and boosted
* Use "Morning Pages" to jot down your ideas. Pour in anything that comes to your mind early in the morning on to blank pages.
* There are four skillsets that need to be developed namely Capturing (of ideas), Challenging (working on tougher problems), Broadening (diversifying knowledge) and Surrounding (the way you manage the physical and social environment)
* Creative people are very productive. Lots of their ideas don't work but the point is they have lots of ideas.
* Creative ideas always get challenged, the reason being people need lots of time to get used to them. It's important not to get discouraged. You have to put up with failures and keeping creating in face of them.
* Rejection goes hand in hand with creativity. Creative individuals think of failures as new opportunities.
* Take breaks between work. May be a walk or a small nap.
* "Blasting through the blocks": Sitting down with a piece of paper and writing down your fears and inhibitions about completing a project.