so today's tech tip is about creativity i always thought of creativity and as a muscle so if you're not actively exercising this muscle you're going to be losing some creativity over time you have to treat it like a muscle if you can exercise it but if you don't do anything with it it goes away and it atrophies creativity and tech is really important because one it keeps you interested in your job instead of just thinking of it as work a lot of us got into tech because it was fun creativity is important so that you can have innovation that you can come up with cool solutions that nobody else has thought of creativity doesn't even have to be about your day job in creative ways it can be other forms of creativity play an instrument draw something build legos with your kids anything that gets that creativity going as adults we aren't encouraged to be creative as much and if that is doing your work in creative ways outside of that normal day job even better because then you can bring those skills back to your work