Creativity is about so much more than your ability to paint a picture or crochet a top.
Take this creativity test to measure yours.
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Allison Holzer is the co-founder of the inspiration strategy company InspireCorps.
Anna Rose Johnson is senior manager of platform marketing at Cricut, a brand that makes super-techy cutting machines.
You name 10 unrelated words, an algorithm then measures the semantic distance between the words.
Allison Holzer is the co-founder of the inspiration strategy company InspireCorps.
Dr. Olson was inspired to make the test based on a game he played as a kid.
My friends and I used to call out words that had no relationship with each other, he says.
It was surprisingly difficult, at least for us kids.
The creativity testscores out of 100, and most people score between 74 and 82.
During the study, the highest score was 92 and the lowest was 20.
You have up to four minutes to complete the test.
Luckily, if youre not satisfied with your results, there are ways to boost your creativity.
4 tips for boosting your creativity
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She pencils in an hour and a half every week to do nothing.
Allison Holzer is the co-founder of the inspiration strategy company InspireCorps.
Dont overthink it
Figuring out ways to be creative shouldnt take too much thought.
For example, if youre looking to get into crafting, pick something that youre already interested in trying.
When youre scrolling through Instagram, do you stop and look at a funny card?
The idea of inspiration being contagious comes from research on emotional intelligence, says Hozer.
All emotions are contagious, but we learned that inspiration isreallycontagious.
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