How to be creative and productive in your life

In this article, I will share a few tips and tricks on how to be creative and productive in your life

“Learning gives creativity,

Creativity leads to thinking,

Thinking leads to knowledge,

Knowledge makes you great.”

― Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

This quote acts as a pillar on how to approach the way of leading life to be highly creative and productive.

Let's take an example of inventions by Benjamin Franklin

Invention: The Franklin stove (1742). Previously, fireplaces in Colonial homes were inefficient and smoky. Franklin’s stove gave homeowners a second option. The Franklin Stove, enclosed in iron, provided more heat with much less smoke, using much less wood. Franklin passed on patenting his invention because he thought it was for the greater good.

Invention: The lightning rod (circa 1753). Franklin used his understanding of electricity to develop a cheap solution to keep houses from burning down. The rod diverted electricity from a lightning strike into the ground near a building. They became very popular, and even King George III had one installed at his palace. The lightning rod has since undergone improvements, including a version from Nikola Tesla.

Invention or innovation: The flexible catheter (1752). When Franklin’s brother has had problems urinating due to kidney stones, the inventor came up with a practical, less painful solution than the rigid tube that doctors used for patients. The flexible catheter is still used today. There were apparently similar devices in Europe, but Franklin’s was popular in America.

Invention: Keywords to describe electricity. Franklin was famous for his experiments with electricity, which also endeared him with the scientific community in France (which helped his later diplomatic career). The late Professor Leo LeMay from the University of Delaware, who was an expert in all things Franklin, credited Franklin with adopting four words we all know today when it comes to electricity: battery, positive, negative, and charge. The words existed before Franklin’s time but had different usage and meanings.

His innovations are nothing but how he saw the world. Many people in his times are having problems but they were not good enough in their creative process.

It is how you see things differently which makes creativity. People must come up with ideas and explore the options available.

Let's take the similar example of Thomas Alva Edison

In many cases, Edison’s genius was taking a new technology that someone else had pioneered and developed a superior way of doing the same thing. “An invention not only has to work fairly well, but it has to be something that the market wants and can afford to buy. Edison understood that as well as anyone in his day,” says Freeberg.

Here creativity precedes far more and people are not even thinking the way Edison thought.

History provides us valuable lessons which we can apply in our day-to-day life. With little tinkering and polishing, we can apply the same rules in our current society.

One who discovers this secret formula on how to apply history in our current scenario becomes a creative, innovative and extraordinary person.

Next comes productivity,have you heard of the concept of deep work.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive twenty-first-century economy.

People who understand the concept of deep work tend to be more productive in their respective domains.

Happy reading folks!!

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