50 ideas to spark creative thinking
Finding gaps in the market and innovating is about taking something ordinary and turning it into extraordinary. That usually requires creative thinking. If this is the part where you get stuck, here are 50 ideas I've taken from the "Creativity for Business Success" course on Shopify.
What do you think about printing those out and doing one a day for the next 50 days? Massive hippocampus stimulation.
- Listen to random music on Spotify
- Use WikiRoulette.co to read a random Wikipedia page
- Run a 5K or 10K marathon
- Try a new form of exercise
- Take a different route to work or college
- Watch a TV show from a different genre
- Read a book from a different genre
- Take a road trip to somewhere new
- Give up a bad habit
- Cook a meal from a new cuisine
- Take up a new hobby that you’ve been interested in
- Go to a museum exhibit
- Visit a new park in your city
- Solve a Rubiks cube
- Call up a family member or friend that you haven’t talked for a long time
- Walk around a neighbourhood in a city you have never visited before
- Volunteer at your local charity
- Build a family tree or take a DNA test
- Reuse or recycle something you’ve just used
- Give blood
- Wake up to see the sunrise
- Learn to juggle
- Learn a coin magic trick
- Attend a local talk or lecture
- Add a new, positive habit to your life
- Learn to meditate
- Go for a walk on a new path
- Go to a new local market
- Paint a picture
- Hold a murder mystery party
- Try a new haircut
- Try writing a book or poem
- Keep a journal
- Learn a new instrument
- Try a new cafe
- Try a new board game
- Go for a picnic on a new park
- Start a veggie garden
- Learn to make sourdough bread
- Go camping
- Try knitting
- Find a new charity to donate to
- Try star gazing
- Do that home DIY project you always wanted to you
- Add a new feature to your garden
- Visit an open home in your neighbourhood
- Learn a new language
- Watch a classic movie that you’ve never seen before
- Print out your photos and create a photo album with them
- Buy a new loot box subscription
