Tips to Live a More Creative Life
World Creativity and Innovation Week is here! This week we’re going to sharing a series of blog posts that will help you infuse creative thinking into your home, classroom, and life.
Today’s theme is “Tips for Living a More Creative Life.” We asked our creative contributors what tip they’d share, and here are the responses:
Dr. Cyndi Burnett
My Bio
Dr. Cyndi Burnett is the Director of Possibilities for Creativity and Education. Like her creativity-focused curriculum for students and teachers, Cyndi embraces the creative lifestyle that she teaches. You will often find her trying on new ideas, exploring resources to stretch her thinking, and being an advocate for playfulness and humor. Although she loves to research and write about creativity, Cyndi is a firm believer in field service. She has 20 years of teaching experience as an academic at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at SUNY Buffalo State where she instructed classes in creative-thinking and creative problem-solving.
Cyndi is the co-author of the books Infusing Creative Thinking into Higher Education, Weaving Creativity into Every Strand of Your Curriculum, 20 Lessons for Weaving Creativity into your Curriculum, and My Sandwich Is a Spaceship: Creative Thinking for Parents and Young Children.
In order to be more creative in life, understand the context of what the subject is looking for and then go beyond what already exists. The subject may be the individual himself or herself or other people. The premise is the same.