Lockdown is a great time (subjectively) for personal improvement. There are a few aspects about yourself, whoever you are, that you could develop. It could either result in new points of view, in effectiveness, in your usual mood, your self-confidence, or even how interested you are about certain subjects.

Creativity is one of those aspects you could develop, it’s also one of the numerous things you can always improve. What are the outcomes, the aftermath? You would be able to express yourself through arts or in your imagination, with specific and accurate representations of how you feel and what you’d want to show or communicate. Sometimes, we need to express how we feel in order to get rid of that feeling if it’s a poisonous one, or to enhance it if you want more!

As you can see, you couldn’t lose anything doing that, not even your time, even if you wanted to.

Explaining what good you get out of it is cute, but how could you actually do it?
First of all, creativity is a matter of imagination. Einstein once said “Logic will take you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere” (it could be taken as an explanation of quantum physics, space-time continuum or the infinite number of possible outcomes and dimensions). The brilliant scientist (but definitely not my favourite) also said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”. What this means is that knowledge is a cool way to show off how much you know and help your logic mind to find solutions. But imagination, if you spend enough time using it, you’ll develop it, you’ll be able to create things no one has ever thought of to this day. You might even get an eidetic memory. To this day, I have never heard of a such cool memory. An eidetic memory gives you the ability to picture what you are currently thinking about, in 3D (just like holograms!). You could picture anything, momentarily modify the surrounding space, objects, EVEN RECREATE AN ENTIRE CINEMA AND WATCH A FULL MOVIE! You could also add yourself to it (eidetic memory reproduces every single detail possible). It’s pretty cool, although I haven’t even talked about how to develop that thing.

I think that after having started to master your imagination and maybe found out how to get closer to an eidetic memory, you could do layouts of things you imagine (for better results you might want to get the right dimensions and proportions, try taking mesures with the model you have in your mind when you control it well). As an example, you could make layouts of buildings, or a layout of a hypercube would be cool too (haha just kidding it’s impossible, click here to see what it is). You could also compose music if you know how to, and if you don’t, try learning it. You could draw, you could paint, you could listen to music while creating a new world in your mind (I recommend listening to Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano concerto, it’s really awesome). You could write, like in a diary or a notebook, or you could dance, sing, even try new recipes to cook! You could also learn new languages (I have been learning Italian for a few days now). Finally, even if it’s not the best thing for your eyes, I think that Virtual Reality is a good way to develop creativity.

As you can see, there are a lot of ways to get to develop your creativity, I think it’s worth it! You should try it sometime!

Brahms