Friday, November 30, 2007
How to Boost Your Creative Output
lifehack.org: "Working productively can be broken down into several key skills: time management, organization and controlling your attention and energy. One of the often neglected but most important factors is your creative output. Successful people tend to have an unusually high creative output and I’d like to offer some tips for how you can boost yours."
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I agree with most of the points in this article. I think that a boosted creative output is important to getting the good ideas out, I think that in a lot of ways this is a lot like monkeys at typewriters. Eventually you can think up Shakespere. The more monkeys at more typewriters are just more random ideas to be had. Many times I have ideas that are immediately dismissed because i know off the bat it won't work, or something like it already exists, or there is a better idea right there at that instant. These are the many ways that ideas come and go. Only once in a while will I strike gold and have a truly great idea.
Although a lot of these points are certainly good ones to follow in regards to creating new material, I question how much of this is really new information to everyone. I think everyone knows that they have to "be patient" before a good idea comes around, and also that they need to write down any ideas that they do come up with. Most of this seems like common sense to me, so I question how necessary writing this article really was.
I agree alot with this article. One thing that I think not only gets me, but alot of other people as well is that we compare our ideas with people that are outside what we do. And I think that we in the place that we are now is that we compare our ideas with everyone else, but that creative is not what that is about. Being creative can only come from you. What you think of makes you different from other people, which is a very good thing. I think that we forget that sometimes
i agree with kelli that a major obstacle is judging your own work compared to others. one tip i would add to this article is to just start a project. oftentimes if you think about an idea too much and don't just try it out, you will lose the potential for greatness! and then once you have started, you can evaluate.
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