Creativity and ways to avoid mental blocks

When being creative, the right side of the brain is the part that's being used. Whenever you have what people call a "creative block", it's because the right side of the brain, the logical side of the brain, preventing you to allow the creative side process ideas. The idea of being creative is not to be too logical or too hard, but just going with the ideas as they come.

Some of the things that cause the creative block include the following:

First Idea Handset: Falling in love with the first idea you come up with, neglecting other ideas that come to mind.
Pre-Judgement: Judging ideas before you create them.
Peer Pressure: Being pressured into creating something you don't want to.
Social Anxiety: Being too anxious that people will judge you for your ideas,  therefore holding back on ideas.
Habit: Doing things you're conforatble with and do often which can stop you from being creative.
Lack of Time: Running out of time and rushing ideas.
Fear: Being scared that you're ideas are bad.
Tension: Othre stresses and tensions in your life may be obstructing your ability to be creative.
Lack of Exercise: Due to being sluggish, your brain doesn't operate well due to a lack of exercise.

The diagram below shows a way of thinking that can be useful when coming up with ideas. The idea is to come up with as many ideas as you can think of and not pre-judging them and thinking of them as good or bad ideas. After this, you can look through the ideas and process which ones are stronger, and what you can do with the ideas. The first idea may lead onto a new idea or a similar concept that you didn't think of previously. This leads to having a refined list of new concepts and ideas from big range of original ideas.