I live for finding ideas and to understand the secrets of creativity. In this slideshow I want to share my experiences how to come up with more and better ideas every day.

1. HOW TO BOOST
CREATIVITY in
your daily life?
10 more or less easy ways to
become a creative genius

2. brush your brain
put a sticky note with a
visualization of a current
question on your mirror.
think about it while you are
brushing your teeth (following
dentist recommendations you
got about 3 minutes).
Write down at least 1 idea per day.

3. Talk about it
Ideas grow when we share them.
Take the ideas you found in the
morning and tell them to three
people during your day.
Refine your idea based on
their feedback.

4. Day dream
Take a 10 minute walk every day
(i. e. your way to work) and ask
yourself one of these questions:
• What would I do if I won the lottery?
• How do I want to live in 20 years?
• How does my personal utopia
look like?
Come up with a different answer
each day.

5. do nothing
Sometimes our brain is capricious.
While we sit at the desk there’s no
idea coming but as soon as we get
under the shower or drive to work,
a great idea pops up.
So let your brain do the job and
sort colored beads (or any other
easy task that keeps you awake but
does not require concentration).

6. Collect info
Information forms the bricks of our
ideas. The more bricks you have,
the more versatile are your solutions.
so buy a magazine you have never
read before and scan it for
interesting facts. write them down,
maybe they can help you with your
mirror question.

7. lucid dream
Lucid dreamers know when they are
dreaming - which can open up a
world of unknown possibilities and
unforeseen ideas for you.
To start lucid dreaming, ask yourself
every hour: “am i awake?“, then look
around and watch out for unusual
things. You will repeat this habit
automatically in your sleep and if
something crazy is happening you might
realize that you are dreaming.

8. Share ideAS
become an active participant in
online idea challenges.
you will see a lot of ideas of other
participants which you can use as
bricks to build your own ideas.
for example, join innocentive.com

9. try new things
your brain is building patterns in
order to navigate efficiently through
your day. challenge these patterns and
feed your brain with unusual content.
for example:
• enter an international store and
taste the weirdest looking fruit
• ask your grandmother for her
favorite song and listen to it
• learn one word in latin every day

10. meet strangers
we tend to surround ourselves with
people who are like ourselves.
to challenge your view of the world
you need to speak to new people.
Look out for people you would normally
not speak to. Tell them about your
personal utopia you had during a
daydream and see what they think.

11. think with your hands
When you place lego bricks in front
of children, magic happens. they start
building the most amazing things –
without planning or making concepts.
so just take some lego, try to shut
down your adult brain and
create something.

12. For further inspiration please contact me:
Matthias Lenssen
innovationradicals | Creative Director & Partner
ml@innovation-radicals.com
instagram.com/matthiaslenssen
I love ideas and
to inspire people!