A virtuoso musician’s apparently effortless fluency comes from years upon years of hard work. Throughout their lives they devote many hours of focused, methodical and detailed practice to the fundamentals of their art.

It is exactly the same for those who are recognised as being particularly creative. Just as a musician’s fluency flows from a mastery of the basic building blocks of music, its scales and arpeggios, the skill of creative problem solving grows out of an enhanced capacity to exploit one of creativity’s fundamental components, the ability to be curious.

If you want to be creative, practice and develop the habit of being curious; from this everything else will flow. Form the habit of asking questions about the problem in front of you. As well as obtaining answers additional, more interesting and helpful questions will occur to you. Practice the skill of looking for not only what is good and bad in a situation but also for what is interesting. This will enrich your thinking and suggest avenues for exploration that would otherwise have remained hidden from you.

Practice the art of being curious and enhanced creativity will be your reward.

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