8 Habits that Inhibit Creativity and How to Overcome Them

It is well known that even the greatest minds are plagued by stifling creativity.

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts the moment you get up and doesn't stop until you enter the office. — Robert Frost

It's a myth that only people with high IQ are creative.

In fact, studies have shown that once your IQ is above 120 or so (slightly above average), intelligence and creativity have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

This means that even if you're no smarter than most people, you still have the potential to be amazingly creative when writing copywriting.

But why are so few people highly creative?

Because people develop some bad habits as they grow up, this is

Psychological disorder of creative thinking in the brain. Like all bad habits, they can be broken if you're willing to work hard.

I've lost my creativity before, it's not a great feeling. So, to help you avoid this, here are eight of the worst bad habits that can get you back every day.

No matter how you define creativity, you can't drive a gear and reverse at the same time. Again, you shouldn't try to use different types of thinking at the same time. You'll strip off your mental gear.

To create means to generate new ideas, to imagine, to look to the future, to consider possibilities. Evaluation means analyzing and judging, picking ideas and classifying them into piles of good and bad, useful and useless.

Most people evaluate too quickly and too frequently, and therefore create less. In order to create more and better ideas, you have to separate creation from evaluation. Come up with a lot of ideas first, and then judge their value.

In any field where there are many masters telling you the secret of their success, this is a big problem. Listening is wise, but when you follow advice without question, it can stifle creativity.

Some of the most successful people in the world have done things that others tell them they will never work. They know something about themselves, even the masters who have the best techniques to attract attention don't know.

Every path to success is different.

Most people remember baseball legend Babe Ruth as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, with a career record of 714 home runs.

However, he is also a master of three strikes. That's because he always hits a home run, not a single or doubles. Ruth was either a great success or a crushing defeat.

No one wants to make a mistake or fail. But if you try too hard to avoid failure, you will also avoid success.

Some people say that to increase the success rate, you should make more mistakes. In other words, take more opportunities and you'll succeed more often. Those few truly great ideas you come up with will be enough to make up for all the stupid mistakes you've made.

Most people like things that make sense.

Unfortunately, life is not neat. It's not just about sleek formulas and using the right trigger words. There are some things you can never understand, and there are some problems you can never solve.

I once had a customer who sold products through direct mail. His order broke every rule in the book. But it was better than any other order he had tried.

Why? I do not know.

All I know is that most great ideas come from a whirlpool of chaos. To overcome stifling creativity, you have to develop a part of yourself that makes yourself comfortable with confusion and confusion. Even if you don't understand why, you should be happy with what works.

Every creative act is accompanied by a degree of uncertainty. A small amount of self-doubt is healthy.

However, you must be confident in your abilities in order to create and implement effective problem solutions. Confidence can also help you avoid being one of those who never shut up.

Much of this comes from experience, but confidence also comes from familiarity with how creativity works.

When you understand that ideas often seem crazy at first, failure is just a learning experience, and nothing is impossible, you become more confident and creative.

Instead of dividing the world into possible and impossible, divide it into what you have tried and what you haven't tried. There are a million paths to success.

Even if you have an open mind and ability to see what is possible, most people around you won't. They will tell you in all sorts of usually subtle ways to be obedient and wise, not to shake the boat. They want to dissuade you from being naïve.

Leave them alone. The road to every victory is paved with predictions of defeat. Once you've achieved a huge victory, all the naysayers will shut up and see what you are – a creativity that can't be ignored.

This is called "analytic paralysis," a situation in which you spend too much time thinking about a problem and then filling your brain with so much information that you lose the ability to act.

Some people say that information is to the brain what food is to the body. Authentic enough. But just as you can eat too much, you can also think too much, and that's the secret to stifling creativity.

Every successful person I meet has the ability to know when to stop collecting information and start taking action. They learn how to write articles quickly. Many people subscribe to the "prepare-fire-aim" philosophy of business success, knowing that it's better to act on a good plan today than to wait for tomorrow's perfect plan.

Ask the copywriter for a good idea and you'll get a solution that contains persuasive words. Ask the designer for a good idea and you'll get a solution that involves visual effects. Ask the blogger for a good idea and you'll get a solution that involves blogging.

We are all products of experience. But our limitations are self-imposed. They are incorrect limits. You can only increase your creativity if you force yourself to look at what you know and feel comfortable with.

Be open to anything. Step out of your comfort zone. Consider how people in unrelated fields do what they do. What seems impossible today may be surprisingly feasible tomorrow.

If you find some of these problems in your own stifled creativity, don't worry. Actually, it's good to be happy! Understanding what is holding you back is the first step to breaking down barriers to creativity.

Now let's take a look at some quick ways on how to get your creativity back. These are simple habits you can practice every day to keep your creativity flowing.

Usually, the more you sit, the more you feel drowsy and unmotivated. The key here is to identify when you really need to rest and when to avoid physical activity. If you're not actually tired, take more time than usual to walk around.

Instead of implementing a strict exercise program (unless that's your thing), make sure your day includes some gentle workouts. You can walk around the block or take the stairs instead of the elevator. Changing your environment by walking around can help you see things from a different perspective, and that's part of being a good writer.

If you're what you're eating, are you also watching you? If you choose a more creative way of entertainment instead of blind nonsense, it will have a positive impact on your creativity.

Read articles and watch videos that can spark your mind. Carefully choose the TV shows and movies you watch. When you do, the content will help your creative output and/or you will have more time for creative work (because you waste less time).

Listening to your inner voice may be the easiest way to overcome stifling creativity. Think of all your "crazy" ideas as valid, rather than immediately dismissing them. If it turns out that they are not your best choice, you can turn them off at any time. But first, give them a chance.

Brainstorm how you can implement an idea so you can achieve a goal. When you do, you're more likely to find a way to achieve the results you want. It may not look like what you originally thought, but you can only discover it by taking the time to imagine different possibilities.

Great content stems from possibilities and potentials, not doubts and limitations.