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How to Become Ridiculously More Creative
A practical science-backed guide with 15 strategies and 5 creativity tests
When was the last time you had an original idea?
Not a remembered idea. Not something you read and repeated with slightly different words.
A completely original idea or a novel combination of familiar elements rearranged into something that solved a problem in a way you hadn’t seen before?
If you’re honest, the answer might be uncomfortable. Weeks. Months. Never. Perhaps you can’t remember.
Most people spend their entire lives consuming, memorizing, organizing, and reproducing others' thoughts. This was fine when value came from expertise, when knowing more than the next person was enough.
But we’ve crossed a threshold.
Every fact you know is now instantly accessible to anyone with a smartphone. Every analysis you can perform, an AI can perform faster. Every template you follow, a machine can execute flawlessly.
What remains valuable —the only thing that remains valuable — is the capacity to produce relevant and effective novelty. To see connections others miss. To recombine what exists into what’s needed. To ask questions no one has asked.
