top of page

CREATIVE EXERCISES

Short exercises for practicing creative thinking. Most take fifteen minutes or less, and I post a new one every week.

 

Write your answer at the bottom of any exercise. Make an account and they all save in one place.

Filter exercises by category:
Turns a bad mood into information. Frustration is specific, and specific is where usable ideas come from.

Published

9/9/26

TRY THIS EXERCISE
This exercise trains your brain to collect raw material instead of waiting for it. Writers who carry a notebook are not more talented. They just have more to work with.

Published

9/2/26

TRY THIS EXERCISE
Kills jargon dependence. If you cannot explain it without the shorthand, there is a decent chance you do not fully understand it.

Published

8/19/26

TRY THIS EXERCISE
Attention. Most things are more interesting than you have given them credit for, because you stopped looking after the first half second.

Published

8/3/26

TRY THIS EXERCISE
Structure is a thinking tool, not just a container. Borrow one and it starts asking you questions you were not asking yourself.

Published

7/15/26

TRY THIS EXERCISE
Breaks the habit of solving everything with your own defaults. Your blind spots are consistent, which is why somebody else's brain finds them fast.

Published

7/23/26

TRY THIS EXERCISE
Idea fluency, and a tolerance for being wrong out loud. The pressure to be right is what stops most people at idea number three.

Published

7/28/26

TRY THIS EXERCISE
bottom of page