3 Ways to Challenge Your Inner Creative

Some people believe they aren’t creative, not innovative and weren’t born with the “creative gene.” What happens if I wasn’t born with it? How can I become more innovative in my personal and professional life?

Fortunately, there are some great tips out there we can all benefit from, and, yes, they came from Google. However, instead of Google.com, they came from a senior leader at Google.

In a summit about innovation for IT leaders, I had the chance to meet a senior leader from the innovation team at Google, Emily Ma.

Emily spent her entire career focused on product and service innovation at firms like Stanford University, IDEO and Google, and her message to all of the IT leaders in the room was simple, “We all have the power to be more innovative.”

Emily challenged all of us with several tips she developed from her experiences which I found useful to anyone seeking to improve themselves as innovators.

Below are three of those tips which are simple not only to read, but to apply in your everyday life:

1.) Facta Non Verba- That is Latin for “deeds not words.” If you have an idea, draw it out. If it’s for a product, build it out of whatever you have at your disposal. If you only have toothpicks, Lego blocks and toilet paper, make a model of your idea. By no means should you sit on an idea. Draw it, build it and make it. It will inspire more creative thinking and give you instantaneous feedback from others on how to refine it.

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