Chance improves decisions & work: 5 inspiration tips for more creativity

New ideas, creativity and good decisions don't just fall out of the sky. They are more likely to be from others People inspired – often by accident. Such coincidences can not be controlled, but you can do something about it.

Serendipity instead of digital efficiency

Social media, computers and digitization have made my life more efficient, today a lot of information can be found fast and easy to find without that Office or having to leave your home office. You can even go shopping digitally and then have the groceries delivered.

Unfortunately, this increasingly prevents things from happening randomly and surprisingly, the so-called serindipity. What can be done to promote this? Getting into unfamiliar, new situations more often, which often means leaving the comfort zone.

The power of chance

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Recently, for example, I was in a youth hostel for the first time in years as part of a cooperation with the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Youth Hostel Association - and I am enthusiastic about the ecologically oriented educational offer there.

Then, when I was walking on the beach in Warnemünde, I noticed people who seemed to be vacuuming the beach. Such nonsense, I thought, and said it Boy Lady what that is. It turned out: The supposed beach clean-up was an extremely efficient environmentalProjects of Uni Rostock. Biodegradable discs were thrown into the sea, which were supposed to bind oil and which were now washed onto the beach with the absorbed oil and sucked up there. One Method, which should also help with larger oil spills, as I was told.

Just talk to each other

Recently I got stuck in Munich on my way from Copenhagen to Italy. Debt there was a storm that put all air traffic in the Munich area out of action. Excitement about the unplanned change of date was misplaced: the involuntary stopover became one of the funniest Network-Meetings I've ever had. Because in the hotel where the airline had accommodated us, people met who otherwise would probably never have come together:

Employees of the Max Planck Institute, SolarEnergy-Activists from Bremen and Spanish businessmen. And since there was nothing else to do but wait, we had virtually no choice but to entertain ourselves. Which brought me a whole series of new ideas personally.

Heterogeneous teams decide better and more creatively

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Studies show that ideas and decisions get better when they are in the market Team be made - and all the more so when the teams consist of as many different heads as possible. Exactly there lies in the Everyday life the rub: Many people move too much in well-trodden paths, circulate too much in their own circles, even or especially in times of Internet.

Overall, there is not enough space and time for coincidences and fresh ideas. But that Problem is that many people only notice the entrenchment of everyday life when massive changes suddenly occur and a problem arises from them. Then suddenly there is pressure to do something different.

5 Tips: Create space for creativity and chance

So that it doesn't get that far in the first place, you should look at the change approach in small steps and create space for creativity and coincidences in everyday life from time to time. But how can you help them get started? Here are a few tips.

1. Do something unusual: Do what you don't normally do. And if it's just a new way to work. New deeds lead to new encounters. And with it new ideas.
2. Just go alone in the pub: Going alone in the pub looks kind of stupid and is frowned upon. Nonsense. In fact, it leads to unusual encounters. Or also that you can pick up interesting ideas at the next table.
3. Visit new places: It can also be enough, just to visit new, other places, which one does not know yet and suddenly unimagined discussions arise.
4. People smile: Also a very good idea to get into conversation with people that I've tried myself before: Just smile at people. For example in public transport.
5. Leave the comfort zone: All of this presupposes that you leave your comfort zone and simply do something uncomfortable to break down the pathways - also in the brain

All of this can have unforeseen, pleasing consequences, as I have just stated several times.

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