Is your imagination in a rut? Has your muse gone on vacation without you? If it feels like you haven’t had a fresh idea in months, here are 11 ways to get your creative mind moving again in 2011:
1. Change your tune.
Music has the power to fire up the brain’s emotion and reward centers, and to form new connections between ideas. When we open our ears to new music, a host of random associations, perspectives and emotions can float up to the surface to help get those creative juices flowing again. Stream other people’s music at Blip.fm, or play radio routlette – that’s the roadtrip game where you hit the search button repeatedly, surfing through all available radio stations with the commitment to listen to one complete song before you move on to the next station. (Sure, you’ll hate some of the tunes you hear, but a bad song is, what, three minutes out of your life?)
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Author: Rebecca Leaman
