Ideas
Unleash Your Creativity: 3 Powerful Ways To Capture & Grow More Creative Ideas by Dan Goodwin
[Apr 08, 2007] The nurture of new creative ideas can be difficult.
We’ve all experienced versions of writer’s block or artist’s block, the feeling of sitting at a blank screen, page or canvas, not knowing what or how to create and terrified we’ll never create anything of any value ever again!
The cycle begins to feed on itself, the fewer new ideas you have, the fewer ideas seem to appear.
A kind of desperate starvation mentality sets in.
When you do have the odd idea you seize upon it like a hungry animal, tearing it apart, devouring and discarding it in seconds before looking around frantically for the next idea to present itself.
It’s not an enjoyable frame of mind to be in for anyone creative, and leads to further frustration and limiting of new ideas.
Fortunately, this kind of cycle also works at the opposite end of the creativity spectrum.
Once we get a few creative ideas recorded and growing, before we know it there’s another and another, and soon we’re overflowing with more ideas than we know what to do with.
The more creative ideas we have, the more we seem to have.
We’ve just got to get the cycle going by having enough ideas initially so that they start sparking off each other and the momentum carries us forward and on to more and more.