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How to Re-ignite Lost Creativity

Written by Lisa Rickwood on March 21, 2011

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein

Are you a creative person? When you think of creativity, what comes to mind?

For most of us, we think of the ‘paintbrush in hand,’ kind of creativity – the artist who paints, sculpts, the author, the actor…We don’t think our spicy Italian stew that we created warrants any kind of uniqueness. The fact that we can finish hardwood floors, lay tile like the pros – it doesn’t strike us that that’s creative but it is.

And what about the person who feels ‘stressed, tapped out or faced with some sort of creative block?’ How can we re-ignite lost creativity? Simple. We act like we did before we reached the ripe old age of seven.

Research shows that we’re at our most creative when we’re five and then…

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