And welcome back to your daily dose of creativity and how to enhance it.
Yesterday I was talking about gathering ideas and how to create something new - I hope all of you did the challenge? - but how can you create an (really good) idea?
That's the question I'd like to answer for you in todays post!
In my class I've heard about two different approaches in this "idea-creation-process". Both of them are really helpful but different. The first approach is going to help you when you have the feeling that something's got your thinking stuck while the other one assists you when you try to climb the walls, which surround your thoughts and prevent you from connecting new ones.
Creative Destruction
One of the first things I've learned about enhancing creativity was that sometimes you have to destroy something to make things better. But that doesn't meant that whenever you fell stuck in your thinking-process you should start to randomly destroy things around you! It means that you have to find something that blocks you and also the reason why. This "something" most of the times is something very emotional and hard to find. The next thing you have to think about before starting the destruction is your objective. What do you want to achieve by destroying your thing? Do you want to get some relief, get over something, or just proof to yourself that you can change things?
After that the only thing left to consider is the way of destruction. Usually it is a very aggressive, brutal one, especially when a lot of emotions and feelings are involved.
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I know this may sound a little strange when you first think about it, but believe me, destruction is not always something bad.In this case it can help you to free your mind and to open yourself to new ideas and feelings.By destroying things you can kind of unblock your creativity.
If you still don't believe me, just have another thought about this quote:
"Would you destroy something perfect in order to make it beautiful?"
(Gerard Way)
And if you need some more thoughts on this, to really form an opinion, have a look at this.
Since this has already been a whole lot to think about I will explain the second approach to you tomorrow in my next post.
Have a nice evening and keep on thinking about this:
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Yours,
AL
Tomorrows topic: "What about all those Boxes?"
Tomorrows topic: "What about all those Boxes?"
