Self improvement is a continuous process. It is a life long process. Out of the various ways you can adopt to improve yourself, creativity is one of them. It is difficult to exactly define creativity. A lot of study has been done to find out what is it that makes people creative.

Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his creative works. Creativity has been associated with right or forehead brain activity or even specifically with lateral thinking.

Some students of creativity have emphasized an element of chance in the creative process. Linus Pauling, asked at a public lecture how one creates scientific theories, replied that one must endeavor to come up with many ideas — then discard the useless ones.

Another adequate definition of creativity is that it is an "assumptions-breaking process." Creative ideas are often generated when one discards preconceived assumptions and attempts a new approach or method that might seem to others unthinkable.

You can see that creativity, though appears to be a simple phenomena, is quite complex.

Our brain is very clever. If we have to use it to the maximum then we should learn how to do it. We should remove the Natural Filter of our brain and open up to Ideas. Research has found that there exists a screening device located at the base of our brain called a Reticular Activating System (RAS). This net-like group of cells helps to decide what we are to be conscious of as it filters out other information. It allows only vital and important sensory input into our conscious awareness.

For example, you are not aware of the shirt on your back until I mention it; or the temperature of the room, or all the sounds in your environment. Thankfully, this filter exists or else we'd go crazy having to acknowledge every color, every sensation, every blink of the eye, and so forth.

What makes understanding the RAS so interesting is that we can shift our focus such that we can become conscious of things normally blocked from our awareness. Just as mothers can hear the slightest "peep" from their babies over many other louder sounds, we can soon become aware of the ideas, the interesting overheard conversations, the article topics that we often block out because we're not focused and open to the possibility of receiving inspiration in a grocery store, for example.

When you first started driving your new car, you thought that not many drove the same model. But soon you began to see these everywhere. People didn't rush out and buy the same car. They were always there. You just made it important to you and thus, your Reticular Activating System allowed that information through.

Once you make writing and being constantly inspired by new ideas important enough to get through, you will be in a new world of ideas and inspiration. Some people think writers are lucky to have been given that crazy experience they were able to turn into a wildly popular book. But if they weren't open to the idea of it becoming a story, they never would've been "lucky."

Self confidence is one of the central pillars on which you build your character. Self improvement is basically how you behave, what is your character, your health both physical and mental. Start shifting your focus to building your character, your behaviour, your physical and mental health. Once you learn to do this you will become conscious of these things which are normally blocked by the brain from your awareness. You will become conscious and see for yourself the progress you are making in building your character, behaviour, your physical and mental health.