Creativity
While being creative isn't easy, nearly all great ideas follow a similar 5 step creative process.
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- Give yourself permission to create junk.
- Create on a schedule. Genius arrives when you show up enough times to get the average ideas out of the way.
- Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work.
- Stop judging your own work. Laugh off your mistakes and continue to produce the thing you love.
- Hold yourself accountable. Share your work publicly. It will hold you accountable for creating your best work.
Some people are primed to be more creative than others.
However, nearly every person is born with some level of creative skill and the majority of our creative thinking abilities are trainable.
- Gather new material directly related to your task as well as learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts.
- Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind. Examine what you have learned by looking at the facts from different angles and experimenting with fitting various ideas together.
- Step away from the problem. Next, you put the problem completely out of your mind and go do something else that excites you and energizes you.
- Let your idea return to you. After you have stopped thinking about it, your idea will come back to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy.
- Shape and develop your idea based on feedback. For any idea to succeed, you must release it out into the world, submit it to criticism, and adapt it as needed.
Finding your creative genius is easy:
- do the work,
- finish something,
- get feedback,
- find ways to improve,
- show up again tomorrow.
- Repeat for ten years. Or twenty. Or thirty.
Inspiration only reveals itself after perspiration.
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Compelling is like being a gold miner. You have to sift through pounds of dirt and rock and silt just to find a speck of gold in the middle of it all. Bits and pieces of genius will find their way to you, if you give yourself permission to let the muse flow .
Sometimes you have to create many ideas just to find one best idea . So don't fear of Creating those junk ideas .
Creativity is taking what's already present and connecting them in ways that haven't been done previously.
- Research suggests both creativity and non-creativity are learned. Some people are more primed than others to be creative but nearly every person is born with some level of creativity and majority of creative thinking abilities are trainable.
- "I'm just not the creative type" doesn't truly exist.
- The creative process:
- Gather new material.
- Look at the facts from different angle trying to fit various ideas together.
- Do something totally unrelated that excites & energizes you.
- Let the idea return to you.
- Shape & develop the idea based on feedback.
Creative thinking requires our brains to make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas.
Nearly every person is born with some level of creative skill and the majority of our creative thinking abilities are trainable.
Creativity is a skill that can be improved, let's talk about why—and how—practice and learning impacts your creative output.
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