{"id":1824,"date":"2026-01-19T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franziskafrank.com\/wp\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:12:49","slug":"are-you-in-a-creativity-slump-what-can-you-do-part-9-of-the-blog-series-influencing-yourself-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franziskafrank.com\/en\/latest\/blog\/detail\/are-you-in-a-creativity-slump-what-can-you-do-part-9-of-the-blog-series-influencing-yourself-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you in a creativity slump? What can you do? Part 9 of the blog series: Influencing yourself and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imaging you have a task ahead of you or your team, right now, right here that requires quite some creativity. But as it happens, in particular today, everyone &#8211; including you \u2013 is feeling like the least inspired creature on earth. A world full of ideas? Not in your heads today. What is the solution? Give up? Postpone? Or is it a solution to deliberately CHOOSE to be creative.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Question: Can you consciously turn on creativity?\u00a0<\/b>In your own brain? In others?<\/p>\n<p>Let us have a short quiz first: What are the best conditions for creativity?<\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">\n<ol>\n<li>Make the task at hand even more difficult by adding restrictions.<\/li>\n<li>Tell yourself and others that the task does not really require any special creativity at all.<\/li>\n<li>Imagine yourself as an eccentric poet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, what did you guess? Answers 1 and 3 indeed lead to measurably enhanced creativity. The opposite is true for point 2. Why? Take a look at the following research results:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To 1: By adding complications such as &#8220;The creative new slogan should only consist of 5 words&#8221;, you get richer and better results than in groups that face no limitations.<sup>i<\/sup>\u00a0This is the so-called frugal innovation &#8211; the more we have to exert our brain, the more creative we become. In other words, if we make things more difficult, they actually become easier. A wonderful paradox!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To 2: Forcing yourself to realize that the task actually does require creativity leads to more plentiful and more creative ideas. The label: &#8220;I need to be creative here&#8221;, causes a bundle of flashes of inspiration. Making the task small and labelling it as uncreative simply results in smaller and more uncreative results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Re 3: Taking on the role of a creative character, such as a poet, increases the originality of the ideas generated. So go wild: Imagine yourself as Nikola Tesla, or Steve Jobs, or your head of innovation, or &#8230; \u00a0and the ideas will sparkle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lure the brain out of its reserve<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the big issues of restrained creativity is that we are inclined to think about what is PROBABLE in a particular situation based on our experiences with ourselves and others and not about what is POSSIBLE. This sets enormous limits: For in almost all cases the &#8220;probable&#8221; is less than the &#8220;possible&#8221;. This self-limitation then in turn limits your output. Any form of &#8220;prime or nudge&#8221; that shifts thinking from what is probable to what is possible is helpful in improving performance. Take a look at some rather extreme examples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First example: People who were informed that pilots have excellent eyesight, and then acted as pilots in a simulator during an experiment, had a measurable improvement in their vision compared to a control group that had not been talking about pilots\u2019 eyes.<sup>iii<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second example: Older people who for a week pretended that they were 20 years younger afterwards were fitter and cognitively better.<sup>iv<\/sup>\u00a0So remind yourself of when you were 21 and your brain will be fitter, and your steps firmer\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get the principle: The more the brain is enticed by thinking outside its typical framework, the more creative, the better, it becomes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, participants who are prepared to think in an environment of scarcity will come up with more original ideas than those who are in a situation of control or abundance. The old saying applies: necessity is the mother of invention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key take-away? Prepare yourself for the need to be creative in order to accomplish a difficult task \u2013 and you will be more creative. The same is true if you overcome your inner limits by \u201cdipping\u201d your neurons into the role of a great innovative character.<\/p>\n<h2>Possible or impossible?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What can you do now in concrete terms? First, remind yourself and your employees of the American children&#8217;s book author Dr. Seuss, who accepted a bet that he would never be able to write a successful children&#8217;s book with only 50 words. And then count the words in the book &#8220;Green Eggs and Ham&#8221; and be astounded!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then introduce additional hurdles to the tasks at hand and pick some creative avatars to assist you.<\/p>\n<p>What else can you do? Pick up the book &#8220;<b><i><a class=\"text-blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/198264\/thinkertoys-by-michael-michalko\/\">Thinkertoys<\/a><\/i><\/b>&#8221; for some hints on other methods for creativity or watch the film &#8220;Monsieur Hulot&#8217;s Holiday&#8221; \u00a0(1953) \u2013 where a free and fearless thinker will inspire you.<br \/>\nClick\u00a0<b><i><a class=\"text-blog\" href=\"https:\/\/franziskafrank.us17.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=09f8b0f815224d0a1ba5eb489&amp;id=2c91f58c6a\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><\/i><\/b>\u00a0not to miss any of the biweekly blogs on influencing. In addition, every two weeks you will be able to download a different chapter of the book &#8220;<b><i><a class=\"text-blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/24-Karat-Success-successful-fulfilled-ebook\/dp\/B07R6W5PK1\"><em>24 Karat Success<\/em><\/a><\/i><\/b>&#8221; for free. The 24 chapters cover different aspects of how to influence yourself and others as PDF or ePub (eReader only) version.<\/p>\n<p>Have a first glance at the book as\u00a0<b><i><a class=\"text-blog\" href=\"https:\/\/franziskafrank.com\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/dokumente\/Buch_Download\/24_Karat_success_-_Intro.pdf\"><em>PDF<\/em><\/a><\/i><\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b><i><a class=\"text-blog\" href=\"https:\/\/franziskafrank.com\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/dokumente\/Buch_Download\/24_Carat_Success-Intro.epub\"><em>ePub<\/em><\/a><\/i><\/b>\u00a0(only for eReader).<\/p>\n<p><sup>i\u00a0<\/sup>Haught-Tromp, C. (2017). The Green Eggs and Ham hypothesis: How constraints facilitate creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(1), 10.<br \/>\n<sup>ii\u00a0<\/sup>Dumas, D., &amp; Dunbar, K. N. (2016). The creative stereotype effect. PloS one, 11(2), e0142567.<br \/>\n<sup>iii\u00a0<\/sup><b><i><a class=\"text-blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/news\/were-only-human\/do-you-really-need-those-eyeglasses.html\">www.psychologicalscience.org\/news\/were-only-human\/do-you-really-need-those-eyeglasses.html<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<sup>iv<\/sup>\u00a0Langer, E. J. (2009). Counterclockwise: Mindful health and the power of possibility. Ballantine Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imaging you have a task ahead of you or your team, right now, right here that requires quite some creativity. But as it happens, in particular today, everyone &#8211; including you \u2013 is feeling like the least inspired creature on earth. A world full of ideas? Not in your heads today. What is the solution? 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