Post by account_disabled on Jan 8, 2024 11:48:05 GMT 2
Over the past few months, with the coronavirus firmly entrenched in our lives, our world has shrunk considerably . Teleworking , which was once a novelty, has become an absolutely mundane practice. Pleasure trips, those that until not long ago were routine (and we took almost for granted), have simply ceased to exist. The list of things that the pandemic has deprived us of is almost endless. And the truth is that the uniformity and absence of novelty that has taken over our existence in times of COVID-19 can very negatively affect the creativity that is housed in our guts, the one that allows us to assemble old ideas to give birth to ideas. of new batch and use the hodgepodge of ideas that emerge from our minds to solve problems. Creativity often sprouts green shoots when confronted with new situations, the same ones that the pandemic has taken from our hands. Something as seemingly trivial as taking a new route to work or having a casual conversation with a colleague in the elevator is enough to exercise our (now somewhat atrophied) creativity muscles. Burdened by the stress and monotony of our lives during COVID-19, we can see our creativity suffer.
However, we can minimize the damage if we adopt the strategies that Susan Peppercorn details below in an article for Harvard Email Data Business Review : 1. Take advantage of negative emotions It may not seem like it soon, but negative emotions are an absolutely essential component in our emotional toolkit. Anger in particular can be an extraordinarily motivating force, helping us focus our attention on very specific activities and spurring our productivity to achieve specific goals. When we are aware that we can change things for the better, pessimism can activate the reward center of our brain. The anger and frustration that many people have felt firsthand in recent months as a result of the coronavirus leads some people to throw themselves with more vigor than ever into the arms of creativity and to take paths (somewhat rockier) that they did not before. would have dared to travel. 2. Don't forget to express emotions Different studies show that those who express themselves through art and other creative activities manage stress and anxiety better and also see an improvement in their own health. In the difficult times that the pandemic has dragged us into, we accumulate a lot of emotional burden and it is very positive to release it by relying on some type of creative expression such as painting, improvisation theater or learning a musical instrument.
Learn to flow Sometimes we feel so engrossed in an activity that we lose sense of time. This beatific state of mind is known in psychological terms as "flow." And those who practice and master this “flow” also report higher levels of creativity, productivity and happiness. Furthermore, learning to flow not only boosts our creativity in the short term but also in the long term. To achieve that “flow” that is so beneficial for our creativity, we must think about those moments in which we feel most inclined to lose track of time. Is it when we run or maybe when we read a good book? 4. Expand our network of contacts When we take the time to interact with people from different backgrounds and disparate knowledge, our creativity is activated. And although we cannot travel or attend events at this time, we can interact with other people virtually as well. The coronavirus has given strength, after all, to virtual events , which are at the crest of the wave and are multiplying like mushrooms throughout the network of networks.
However, we can minimize the damage if we adopt the strategies that Susan Peppercorn details below in an article for Harvard Email Data Business Review : 1. Take advantage of negative emotions It may not seem like it soon, but negative emotions are an absolutely essential component in our emotional toolkit. Anger in particular can be an extraordinarily motivating force, helping us focus our attention on very specific activities and spurring our productivity to achieve specific goals. When we are aware that we can change things for the better, pessimism can activate the reward center of our brain. The anger and frustration that many people have felt firsthand in recent months as a result of the coronavirus leads some people to throw themselves with more vigor than ever into the arms of creativity and to take paths (somewhat rockier) that they did not before. would have dared to travel. 2. Don't forget to express emotions Different studies show that those who express themselves through art and other creative activities manage stress and anxiety better and also see an improvement in their own health. In the difficult times that the pandemic has dragged us into, we accumulate a lot of emotional burden and it is very positive to release it by relying on some type of creative expression such as painting, improvisation theater or learning a musical instrument.
Learn to flow Sometimes we feel so engrossed in an activity that we lose sense of time. This beatific state of mind is known in psychological terms as "flow." And those who practice and master this “flow” also report higher levels of creativity, productivity and happiness. Furthermore, learning to flow not only boosts our creativity in the short term but also in the long term. To achieve that “flow” that is so beneficial for our creativity, we must think about those moments in which we feel most inclined to lose track of time. Is it when we run or maybe when we read a good book? 4. Expand our network of contacts When we take the time to interact with people from different backgrounds and disparate knowledge, our creativity is activated. And although we cannot travel or attend events at this time, we can interact with other people virtually as well. The coronavirus has given strength, after all, to virtual events , which are at the crest of the wave and are multiplying like mushrooms throughout the network of networks.