There are times when I struggle to get myself in the state of flow, what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes as ‘a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.’ So I need to take a step back and take on some things that get me back in to the flow of the creative work that I love doing.

These are some of the things I do to boost my creative mind:

I have taken public speaking classes in high school, college, and gave presentations twice a week throughout grad school, yet I still hadn’t hit my stride. Then a couple years ago, a friend told me about his experience taking an improv class.