Creativity:
How to Unlock Your Hidden Creative Genius
James Clear
Jamesclear.com
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In this impressive
article James Clear defines creativity and explains the various steps of the
creative process. Read this article and discover the creative strategies of
the greatest artists, musicians, and writers in the world—Pablo Picasso, Franz
Kafka, Dr. Seuss and many more. It is packed with information on how creativity
works, how to overcome the mental blocks that all artists face, and how to make
creative thinking a habit.
Some Excerpts:
What is
Creativity?
Let's define
creativity.
The creative
process is the act of making new connections between old ideas or recognizing
relationships between concepts. Creative thinking is not about generating
something new from a blank slate, but rather about taking what is already
present and combining those bits and pieces in a way that has not been done
previously.
While being creative isn't easy,
nearly all great ideas follow a similar creative process. In 1940, an
advertising executive named James Webb Young published a short guide
titled, A Technique for Producing Ideas.
Young
believed the process of creative connection always occurred in five steps.
The Creative
Process
1.
Gather new material. At first, you learn. During
this stage you focus on 1) learning specific material directly related to your
task and 2) learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range
of concepts.
2. Thoroughly work over the
materials in your mind. During this stage, you examine
what you have learned by looking at the facts from different angles and
experimenting with fitting various ideas together.
3. 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.
4. Let your idea return to you. At
some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it, your idea will
come back to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy.
5. 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.
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