Stimulating Creativity When You're Not Feeling Creative

For those in a creative career, forcing creativity when you're not feeling creative can be grating, even painful. Here's some of my tips and tricks that I've developed over the years.

What is creativity? Dictionary.com defines it as

The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination.

No pressure.

Here’s my simpler definition: We usually understand creativity as the state of being w…