No matter how hard you push the gas, the car just won’t budge.
This is how engaging your creativity feels like at times. Sometimes, no matter how much work you put in, you don’t feel like you’re getting anywhere.
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
How to Never Run Out of Great Ideas
No matter how hard you push the gas, the car just won’t budge.
This is how engaging your creativity feels like at times. Sometimes, no matter how much work you put in, you don’t feel like you’re getting anywhere.
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This was a great list with a lot of good practices that any artist or creative person could benefit from implementing. The one about keeping up with your competition is a really smart idea. When you look at others work you are more likely to see flaws then when you look at your own work because you have an inherent bias. So there by looking at others you can see where there shortcomings are and then reexamine your own work and know what to avoid. I think this can be done with physical output like a product design or more meta skills like how people interact with each other. The thing on this list that I think I need to really work on is the making massive imperfections. This point was about how the fear of failure or inadequacy is the major hindrance from creation at all. Stopping the flow pf creativity because of a fear of what you will create.
This article has some really great tips and tricks to increasing creativity and idea flow. I love mind mapping and it's how I sort out a number of things, including my artistic ideas. This article really reminded me of something my poetry teacher said to us when addressing writers block. He mentioned that "if your for what you want to write a poem about were lower you'd never have writers block" which I have taken to be true in my life. The point that I thought was the post interesting was changing up your work space. Because I work in 33 all the time which is almost always the same, I don't really get the chance to change up my space and use my space to inspire more creative ideas and practices. I'm gonna try to take that idea into my workspace because I think it might help me feel less stifled.
This article speaks to an important point: creativity when you lost it. Many a times will a project happen just after another and people won’t be as creative simply because they dumbed so much of it into the last project. What can be done to fix it? This article lets you know a few good ways of doing. What I noticed is the tips are not only good for getting out of a block but for just inducing creativity anyways. I also noticed that the tips are similar to tips offered to help improve your mental health and overall well-being and happiness. So, what I have realized from this article is that creativity is linked to happiness and well-being. I think this is a much more important message that it is sending out. I also love the idea of change that these all include. Stability it good but its bring and monotonous and this offers simple changes that won’t sacrifice the stability for those people who need that in their lives when it comes to their jobs. Traveling can be done on vacation and is just a great thing to do every once in a while, that also helps your creativity. Another is changing your work space as he says but one thing I have read elsewhere is changing your routine. Something as simple as taking a new route to work can improve your happiness and well-being significantly. That’s a form of change that you can do daily or weekly that will also make you more creative. A wonderful article that really speaks to why artists are more able to create and why they should be valued without actually having to say such.
I wish I knew about these ideas sooner in my life. I often struggle with creativity and ideas for projects, especially in writing. These are all useful tools. I love to travel and when I have the chance I love to just get away for the weekend. I also keep a small notebook with me all the time in case I get an idea or someone says something to me that I want to remember. I am not comfortable asking my competition. I live with the idea that comparison is the thief of joy and I have not yet tried mind-mapping. Overall these are some great ideas in terms of getting things moving in the collective and creative part of my head. I want to be able to use these things when it comes time to write my thesis. I know the mind mapping one will be quite useful. I think that anyone could use any number of these ideas for a variety of tasks, not just being creative. I constantly tell people in the leadership workshops I give to carry a small notebook with them. You never know when an idea will strike or when you will need to write something down. It’s always good to be prepared.
This is a very useful list to refer back to whenever you get a block of any kind while trying to brainstorm ideas for a project or assignment. I could even see it being helpful to write each of these tips on sticky notes and putting them on your desk, or writing them on flash cards so you can draw one whenever you feel like you are stuck. I got a deck of “Art Oracle” cards for Christmas that are supposed to help you out when you are in a creative rut. They say things like “Start with a dot,” and “Sometimes wanting is better than having,” just little sentences that correlate to the artist on them. I really appreciate these tools that are supposed to get you to think differently or from a new perspective than you have. While working on a project, it is easy to get trapped in a certain headspace, which limits your potential.
I love this article. It takes a very simple approach to solving a problem that, as an artist, always seems to be loaded with anxiety and pressure. I am always scared of running out of ideas and it is reassuring to read an article that helps you overcome this. I think that creativity is blocked most often when we are under distress and stay too much within our own minds. I like the idea of doing external things to free up our internal thoughts like moving to a different place or writing down ideas on paper in a mind dump. Personally, when I feel as if I had hit a block, I draw with my eyes closed so that I can fully focus on my ideas without thinking about what the drawing looks like and if it is clear enough for others to understand. Like the other steps in this list, I find that this takes me away from my current environment and takes me into a world of just my mind. I also think that there is great power in just walking away from something. If you are frustrated with a project, sitting there and starring at it isn't going to help because all of your ideas will just stem from a place of frustration so might as well go home and rejuvenate.
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