With over 300 posts on The Creative Catalyst website blog, it may seem a little daunting to know where to start to understand the intersection of creativity and science. These blog posts cover many of the themes explored in the Creative Advantage book series. I’ve also merged two separate blog sites into one for ease of access.
So to help you explore these further I’ve curated these posts into daily life themes to assist to review your approach to creativity as it intersects in all aspects of life. These posts will cover what you can action today including practical tools in your pursuit of enhancing your creativity and problem solving skills.
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Let’s start with one of the key themes explored in The Creative Advantage on how we can build a creative practice through routine. The following posts assist in reflecting on how to establish creative routines to build your creative muscle.
This theme focuses on embedding creativity into your standard daily schedule to naturally boost cognitive flexibility through actively engaging in habit formation.
They also focus on posts detailing physical routines that spark thought, such as how daily walking alters brain chemistry to solve mental blocks, and how altering minor components of your day shifts your brain chemistry.
The Creative Benefits of Walking:
A breakdown of Attention Restoration Theory (ART), highlighting how leaving technology behind and walking outdoors directly replenishes the prefrontal cortex to improve daily problem-solving capabilities.
How Writing 750 Words a Day Could Change Your Life:
This post details the famous "Morning Pages" routine popularised by Julia Cameron. It highlights the daily ritual of writing three handwritten pages shortly after waking to clear mental clutter and anchor a creative workflow.
Creating Creative Habits Through Frequency:
This post explores how to harness the power of frequency as a means to manage time to foster productivity and creativity. Gretchen Rubin – author of Better Than Before: What I learned about making and breaking habits, has successfully created a habit to write every day, including weekends and holidays, for a minimum of fifteen minutes to a few hours. She says this frequency has enabled her to accomplish more and with greater originality.
A Personal Reflection Maintaining Creativity Through Covid:
This post is a personal reflection of the summer of 2020 which proved to be the most severe fire filled summer Australia had ever experienced, only to be followed by the arrival of the Covid worldwide pandemic. So how do you maintain your creativity during a pandemic? Not a question I thought I’d ever be asking but, as it turned out, one I could answer.
Creativity... Is More Than Just Feel Good:
This post explores how a strong sense of purpose helps us maintain routines by avoiding destructive habits or distractions that derail momentum and focus on how to actively raise awareness against time-wasting behaviours.