Creativity is a muscle that needs development just like any other muscle in your body. Once you know the best exercises to flex your creative muscle, you’ll be generating genius ideas on a regular basis. If you keep hearing the same ideas over and over again, come to this session and discover five tricks to unlocking you and your team’s creative genius!

1. How To
Trick Your Brain
Into Being More Creative

4. DRAW
4
IMAGES

5. PICK
2
FAVORITES

6. WRITE YOUR STORY

7. SHARE WITH PARTNER

8. Pablo Picasso
“All children are artists.
The problem is
how to remain an artist
once (s)he grows up.”

10. You Gotta
Work
It
TRICK #1

11. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade

12. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade
New names for Google

13. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade
New names for Google
Titles of your own reality show

14. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade
New names for Google
Titles of your own reality show
Ways to eat pizza w/o hands

15. Crush The Critic
TRICK #2

16. Daily Brainstorm
Word Association
One Word Story
Happy A-Z

17. TRICK #3
Expand
Then
Contrast

18. Creator
come up with a ton of ideas
explore imagine
go big
generate

19. Yes And…

20. The Alien
Went To
The
Beach…
Yes and…

21. Karen
Tilstra

22. Creator
come up with a ton of ideas
explore imagine
go big
generate
Critic
narrow down your list
reduce refine
clarify
decrease
select

23. Idea
Dating
TRICK #4

24. Jason Silva

25. 5 Ways to Exercise With A Lampshade

26. Idea 1 + Idea 1 = New Idea
5 Ways to Exercise With A Lampshade

27. Idea 2 + Idea 2 = New Idea
5 Ways to Exercise With A Lampshade

28. Steve Jobs
“Crea&vity is just
connec&ng things.”

29. Set It & Forget It
TRICK #5

30. “Those whose entered REM sleep did 40% beBer on the
test than nappers who didn’t get any REM sleep and
non-nappers.
REM sleep allowed the brain to work crea&vely on the
problems that had been posed before sleep.”

31. Forget It
Set It
Define Parameters Forget It
Research
Create An Ugly Duckling
Perfect It
Forget It
Forget It
DO IT

33. Tom@SwiftKickHQ.com
@TomKrieglstein

35. “You can be crea&ve in anything -
in math, science, engineering,
philosophy - as much as you can in
music or in pain&ng or in dance.”
Sir Ken Robinson

36. How To
Trick Your Brain
Into Being More Creative