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According to the dictionary, creativity is "the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work." We also know that "creativity" is more than just an artistic expression but also, a way to recognize ideas that can help in solving problems.

5 Amazing Courses to Spark Your Creativity

Can creativity be taught? For sure! Even if you think you are the most creative person, creativity can be taught and be extremely useful not only for your work but, for your personal life.


To help you out, we have selected 5 online courses to spark your creativity this year. Here are them:

5 Amazing Courses to Spark Your Creativity


“You don’t find your style, your style finds you.” Discouraged by the words of his art professor, Andy J. Pizza spent years following trends and feeling inauthentic in his art, waiting for his style to show up. Spoiler: it never did. So Andy set out to find it himself, a journey that led to experiments, breakthroughs, success as an illustrator, podcaster, and speaker, and ultimately this class.



5 Amazing Courses to Spark Your Creativity


Wouldn’t it be wonderful to always have plenty of new ideas bubbling up on the inside of you? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to never run out of creative gas? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could be in charge of the flow of your creative juices?


Guess what – that actually is within your reach! You can train yourself to make that happen. You do not need to be a victim of creative blocks. You have the ability to break out of those. Or even better, you can prevent them from happening.


5 Amazing Courses to Spark Your Creativity


Creativity is an essential skill for the 21st Century that is innate in all people and can be nurtured. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The goal of this course is to help you recognize, develop and act upon the creativity that you already possess. We will accomplish this using three methods: b aware, b inspired, and b creative.



5 Amazing Courses to Spark Your Creativity


You will learn to ignite and unleash the power of new ideas and your creative thinking to make more money, innovate in an industry, job or field, or reinvent yourself professionally into someone new.



5 Amazing Courses to Spark Your Creativity


This course from the School of Education at the University of Sheffield will encourage you to think differently about play.


We’ll discuss definitions of play and current debates about how the nature of play changes. Does play help us to learn? Can it prepare young people to be successful in the adult world? Are all forms of play good for us? You will learn to ignite and unleash the power of new ideas and your creative thinking to make more money, innovate in an industry, job or field, or reinvent yourself professionally into someone new.




There is a famous poem about the New Year of a Brazilian poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, that says there is a miracle of renewal at the end of the year. When everything starts again, with another number and another desire to believe that from now on, it will be different.

That’s a feeling we believe everyone carries during this time of the year. As if we kind of forget things that weren’t nice, can be done or happen differently, just by turning from December 31st to January 1st, like magic.


Too optimistic? Maybe unrealistic? Yep, maybe. But for sure, this tiny moment of hope makes us try again, make it different and believe we are evolving every single year.


Happy 2023! For more 365 chances of making your best!



It's the middle of the day and your brain seems to go blank. Have you experienced this? We think you did, and the reason must be, you are putting too much concentration and focus nonstop on everything you need to do to get your work done. In the end, you get exhausted and the work isn't finished, in fact, you don't even know how to restart.

5 Ways To Refresh Your Mind

Don't worry (but pay attention), because this has a good solution or path which could help you get on track again, without blowing your brain circuits! Refresh your mind, we'll tell you how on these 5 easy steps!


1. Take a Break!


Have a pause. Really, it's that simple. Step away from your workspace for some minutes, go outside, stretch, listen to a song or songs, try pausing what you are doing if you can for some minutes and it will make you a little more focused when you come back. This will happen because you allowed yourself to step back. We all need a break, we are not machines! Respect your break, don't get too distracted on social media, while at it. The purpose here is to unwind.

5 Ways To Refresh Your Mind

2. Take Deep Breaths


It has been proven that practicing deep breathing exercises will lower levels of anxiety. There is a scientific reason for that: slow and deep breathing will stimulate the vagus nerve (popularly named wandering nerve) and release the anti-stress chemical acetylcholine. What will it do exactly? It will slow down your heart rate and relax you!



5 Ways To Refresh Your Mind

3. Listen to Relaxing Music


If you need to work focused on writing or creating something, for instance, probably you have favorite playlists to listen to. This tip will maybe make you frown, but trust us, it works. Working with focus and creating requires concentration. If you are listening to songs with too many lyrics, or a fast beat, this will cause you even if you don't notice, distraction, irritation, and wandering (who doesn't love good lip-syncing?). So try listening to chill-out music, the kinds that have no lyrics on them, or even, natural sounds (you know, the forest sounds, with rain and the whole package) also to classical music. You will see your workflow really coming through! It calms you down and helps you create peacefully!



5 Ways To Refresh Your Mind

4. Eat Healthy!


If you take three, four, big cups of coffee to keep you going, this will most likely keep you going until you need to go to a doctor, very soon. If you eat stuff that will make your body bloat, lots of sugar that will make you too energetic and then slow, deregulate your insulin...I'm sorry to tell you, you are doing this wrong, buddy. Food is fuel. Good fuel keeps your brain (and the rest of your body) functioning very well. Try Mediterranean food, it is complete with all nutrients you need and improves your brain functions as well.


Learn more about healthy eating habits for busy women at Healthy Busy Bee.


" Researchers found a Mediterranean diet may improve cognitive output in elderly people at high risk of heart disease. The antioxidant-rich Mediterranean diet comes packed with polyphenols." (from Happy Project)

5 Ways To Refresh Your Mind

5. Take a Break on Social Media


Many (MANY) studies have shown that spending too much time scrolling up and down Instagram, Facebook and other social media might cause mood swings (to say the least), and you won't even notice. Avoid spending too much time hanging on your phone, try shutting everything off, like notebooks and all the tech surrounding you. Even if for an hour or two. This will rest your eyes, your mind, your feelings. Trust us. A detox is necessary to keep the sanity, mostly at these crazy times!


To wrap up, we selected a few "mind refreshers" items to help in this process of restarting your brain.





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