Comfort Zones are the Death of Creativity

What makes people boring is that they’re predictable. They are repetitive and many times aren’t willing to entertain new perspectives. Fun and play are the opposite of predictable boredom.

Open up yourself to new ideas and experiences regularly without any real agenda or goals, except that you want to open your mind. Some ways you can do that:

• Take a road trip – or a trip in your area that you’re not familiar with.
• Go some where that is different from your own environment. If your a mall rat, spend time at a farm. If you’re a suburbanite that drives everywhere, go to the city and take the bus, taxi or subway.
• Be around people who speak a different language than you.
• Just go out and wander your neighborhood on foot for an hour.

Get out of that which is familiar to you. Afterward you’ll feel a jolt of creativity running through you.

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