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title: 10 steps for boosting your creativity
date: "2005-02-25T12:00:00Z"
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description: Boost your creativity by introducing artificial constraints, such as picking a random word from a dictionary to incorporate into your ideas. Remember that total freedom often inhibits the creative process, while limitations force more innovative thinking.
keywords: [creativity, brainstorming, creative constraints, random word technique, problem solving, ideation]
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[10 steps for boosting your creativity](http://www.jpb.com/creative/creative.php)

> If you're stuck for an idea, open a dictionary, randomly select a word and then try to formulate ideas incorporating this word. You'd be surprised how well this works. The concept is based on a simple but little known truth: freedom inhibits creativity. There are nothing like restrictions to get you thinking.