Nicholas Bate –

1. It all starts with believing that you are creative: ‘I am creative’.

2. As we all are. It’s just some have had more practice and some have had more encouragement and some have had both.

3. Simple tip 1 is to generate quantity of ideas. ‘50 ways to disrupt the competition’. Quantity always guarantees some quality.

4. Simple tip 2 is to disrupt the usual thinking patterns. Thus write the list of fifty whilst standing up. Fresh perspective is all when boosting creativity.

5. Simple tip 3 is to inject the fresh perspective by opening a random page of a book, watching 60 seconds of a car ad……..

6. Simple tip 4 is to try out De Bono’s 6 Thinking Hats.

7. Simple tip 5 is to practise the skill of creativity daily.