You may be one of those individuals who say, "I'm not creative." I assure you that this may have been true in terms of your behavior up to now, but it is not true of your capability.
For example, highly analytical thinkers generally believe they are not creative. However, I've taught creative thinking and the application of Whole Brain® thinking for 20 years, and I can assure you that even these individuals are capable of creative thinking. Interestingly, they usually do it in terms of analytical things. In other words, they create unusual ways of being analytical.
A few examples of creative living may help. Suppose that you want to learn something new. An instance of this was on a very old episode of the TV program Happy Days. One of the boys was taking an anatomy class and was having trouble remembering all the details of the skeleton. Another boy suggested the song that has a line, "The hip bone's connected to the thigh bone," and so on. He did this because the anatomy student loved music, and this memory device made remembering the anatomy lesson very easy for him.
Another example. Say you're having trouble getting a child to understand that teasing can go to the extreme and actually be bullying. Rather than lecturing, which often results in a polarity response from a child, you suggest that several children put on a play, in which they show how teasing can be harmful. There is a principle involved here: people don't argue with their own data. So by having the children teach the lesson themselves, they are more likely to internalize it than if they were taught the lesson.
In the next post I'll give examples of how you can use creative ideas to improve your relationship with someone you care about romantically. (No, it won't involve anything immoral.)
Until then, be a dev!ant (in a good way).
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