I used to think that I wasn’t creative. I recently realized that creativity is not something you’re just born with, creativity is really something we can cultivate and something we can encourage in ourselves and others. One of my favorite class activities is to challenge my students to come up with 30 ideas for using an everyday object in unconventional ways. What is a pen, if it’s not something to write with? We can apply this same approach to our work to open up new solutions and ideas. Full transcript available on Medium.
