Earn Money Online By Rediscovering Your Creativity

Many people do not believe that they have the requisite creativity to earn money online. In other words, they do not believe that they have the natural creativity to develop a marketable product or idea which they can exchange online for currency. For these people, I have put together a list of seven ways in which you can instantly access your natural creativity and create anything you like.

 

1. Think Like A Child

As adults, we have been conditioned in a manner aimed at showing how astute we are. Conversely, as children, we were closer to a blank slate, allowing us to be more spontaneous and far more creative in our thinking. To rediscover your childhood curiosity, you need to allow yourself to just wonder about things. Detach yourself from what you thought was real, and place yourself in the here and now. This exercise will help you to develop methods to earn money online which are unique to the market.

 

2. Connect The Dots

You do not need to be a college graduate to be innovative. You just need to make a connection between existing ideas. For instance, are you aware of the fact that ice cream was invented in 2000 BC? That being the case, it still took another 3900 years for someone to come up with the idea of a cone. It is when you take two seemingly unrelated items, and put them together in a manner that makes so much sense, that genius has been executed.

 

3. Defy Logic

A really strange Western trait is wanting every idea to make sense and have an explanation. We prefer solutions to problems, and answers to questions. To be creative, you need to be comfortable with things that do not fit. The Eastern tradition is more in tune with incongruence. As in this Zen koan, or problem, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

 

 

4. Make It Laughable

Tom Peters states that the creativity of a workplace can be measured by a laugh-o-meter. I suppose a laugh-o-meter is a device which measures the degree of laughter. The reason why Peters made this statement is because humor is one of the greatest creative devices. It jolts us out of our normal patterns and puts ideas together that should not fit. I has actually been found that after listening to comedy tapes, students' ability to solve problems increases by 60%.

 

5. Push Your Cognitive Limits

Many of the products which we take for granted today are the result of people thinking outside their limits. One computer pioneer recalled attending a computer conference back in the 1980's. In particular, someone had joked that the next invention would be computerized door locks. When this pioneer went back to the same hotel 20 years later, all the doors used computer-programmed key cards.

 

6. Adopt and Adapt

You do not have to come up with a new idea from scratch in order to be creative. Rather, you can be creative by adapting what works elsewhere. For instance, an American airline that wanted quicker turnarounds on their flights. Thus, this airline adopted the techniques of Formula One pit crews.

Another source of ideas is nature. Georges de Mestral adapted the way certain seeds stick to clothing and invented Velcro.

 

7. Dreams Are Important

Both night and day dreaming can create a rich flow of ideas. This is due to the fact that when we relax, we let the subconscious mind work by itself. The Roffey Park Management Institute calls this "washing-up creativity". The name was coined due to the fact that most flashes of inspiration come when we are walking the dog, taking a nap, or doing the washing up.

 

If you follow these seven exercises, and make them a part of your daily regimen, I guarantee you will garner the creativity to earn money online in ways which are unique to yourself.

 

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