One Key to Increasing Creativity: Improv

Years ago I took an acting class. I had this weird idea that it would make me a better writer, and it did. It enhanced creativity by expanding visualization skills. (It also cemented the knowledge that public performance is not my natural forte.)

Anthony Robbins, a popular self-help guru and author, has explained that tests prove a person's ability to sink basketballs into a hoop can be improved by the repetitive visualization of successfully doing just that. In fact, visualization practice is actually more effective at improving the number of balls sunk into a hoop on a court, than physically practicing shooting hoops. Visualization practice while physically mimicking the activity movements (sans ball thrown toward hoop) is even more efficacious.

So when it comes to improving creativity, maybe improv is one of the answers.