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Creativity is one of the hottest buzzwords in industry today, as companies seek to rethink, redesign, and meet the needs of modern society in exciting new ways.

Seeing as creativity implies a certain uniqueness, pinning down how creative people operate can be a tricky task, yet Andrew Tate at Canva gives us a sneak peek behind the curtain to see what they’re doing differently.

01. They create a custom work routine and stick with it

…We idolize those people who work all hours and focus entirely on that. Though they may be quickly successful, in the long term such people will burn out.

Your brain and body needs the time to recuperate and relax for you to come up with the best ideas and be the most creative. This may be as simple as setting a strict work routine and making sure your work stays within those boundaries, or you mind might need more reinvigoration each day. If so, meditation is highly prevalent within the creative community. Sting, David Lynch, and Hugh Jackman are all meditators, and just a few minutes per day of contemplative thought can improve the brain’s ability to think creatively.

When all of this comes together, then the best minds get in the zone. Easily one of the most important traits that the most creative people exhibit is the ability to get lost on their work and go with the flow…

02. They can recognize their worst work, not just their best

As important as it is to know how you work best, it is as important to recognize when you are not performing at your optimum. Highly creative people are often easily bored as their minds are always after something to occupy them. Again, they might therefore create specific routines to make sure they always stay on task and concerned with the matter at hand. Either that, or they will build their lives and work around multiple smaller activities to make sure they do not get too bogged down and bored with one at a time.

Though they should be doing one thing, their minds are often off on something else and they can get easily distracted. This leads to the bad version of above – when you look up from YouTube and realize the day has gone by. Again, specific rituals and routines can abate this and make sure that they get the code, article, presentation, etc. done on time, even if it is at the last minute. After all, the greatest inspiration is the deadline.

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