Creativity is not exclusive to artists and designers. It is a tool that is useful to all fields in which we can perform both occupationally and socially. One of the main advantages of exercising our creative side is to find solutions and innovate when obstacles arise.
One way I keep my creativity active that has nothing to do with art is to have hobbies that hold me back. Being bad at a new activity is normal and inexperience often gives us a great creative edge, because we don’t know if what we are coming up with will be overlooked by someone more experienced. Ingenuity often goes hand in hand with audacity and this allows us to try without fear of failure, because at the beginning we rarely have anything to lose.
In my case some of the hobbies that help me to stay afloat are: sports, I practice frontennis and I have noticed how it helps me to get out of my routine, it helps me to think in different ways and to activate me out of the usual schedule; I also like rollerskating; cooking and playing board games, especially if they are strategy games.
When I feel like I have a creative block and I don’t know where to begin, doing any of these activities is usually very helpful.
