Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
Love to create~
Another idea if you want to push against the mental pressure that kills good ideas, from Paul Graham’s recent essay on how to do good work: “One way to do that is to ask what would be good ideas for someone else to explore. Then your subconscious won't shoot them down to protect you.” I don’t know of anyone using this technique, but it might work.
The creative person knows that nearly anything they encounter in the course of daily life can be fodder for creative solutions.
The artist Gina Malek had made a similar suggestion …. "Just walk up to a piece and try to think of five things that it brings up," she suggested. Not five things that the art is about. The observations don't need to be grandiose, like this probes masculinity in the postinternet age. Just, what are five things you notice, either in the work or in
... See moreCreativity thrives in stillness and nothingness;