Creativity: Tools, Techniques, Tips
by Daniel Wentsch · updated 2mo ago
Creativity: Tools, Techniques, Tips
- Make space for unstructured creativity. You don’t need to create something useful or beautiful. You could doodle while watching your favorite TV show or imagine alternative endings to a novel you just read. In fact, you don’t need to produce anything at all.
from Creative Aliveness: Turning Life Into a Creative Adventure by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
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Creativity is not a process. creativity is not scripted.
One of the most salient traits of creative visionaries like Walt Disney and Steve jobs is the absence of process.
Process is an organized way of doing things. But they didn’t have a process. They just did the work. No strict adherence to budget or timelines. Just figure things out on the fly.
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- Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.from You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol by Ozan Varol
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- To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.
from Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life by Dasha Nekrasova
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Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, reinvent. Build a
from Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
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- Curate inspiration every day. Find apps, sites, and publications where you can brows through steams of inspiration, and save anything you like into niche buckets of interests. You'll get more creative, and you'll start to see ideas and make connections you hadn't considered before.
from WePresent | Marty Bell’s 10 tips for a more fulfilling (and fun) life by Marty Bell
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- "The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank." — Steven Johnson
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When nature finds itself in need of new ideas, it strives to connect, not protect.
from Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
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Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience for ourselves and others based on this information set. Whether we do this consciously or unconsciously, by the mere fact of being alive, we are active participants in the ongoing process of creation
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