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I ran across this slide show on Creativity while looking for images for my last post. While I don’t agree 100% with everything the author says (especially that people are lazy for I sure as heck don’t consider myself lazy), there were some comments about LOGIC that caught my attention and made me wonder if being TOO logical is part of my problem…
I thought I’d share it with you just to see what YOUR response to her thoughts are. I hope you find it interesting!
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Picture Source: Dumb Little Man
Impromptu Promptlings 
Interesting clip, Calensariel. For me it is too much data and believing I need to know more about a topic. I’m going to go back over the clip again and see if I can come up with seven opposites: how to foster creativity …. thanks for the post and the inspiration.
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Oh cool, Janet! I would love that. Can’t wait to see what you do with it. 😀
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I agree with all the points and have two more…always playing by the rules and fear of differences and the unknown kill creativity. Does that make sense?
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Absolutely, Jeanne. Oh Lordy… Especially how fear can kill creativity. Nail on the head!
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I see creativity as a free mind. Freeing your mind from what it knows (or thinks) to be true, from self-censorship, from cherished values, freeing it to be adventurous, risk-taking and willing to make mistakes. I consider myself as lazy and also as creative when I choose to be. Some of what she suggests resonates, but I don’t see being lazy as the overarching trait helpful. I’ve done a lot of research into implicit learning and quite simply, to be creative, the brain needs to go offline for a while and process the information it has without conscious direction – this leads to creative insight. You could fill your conscious brain with lots of facts, even unrelated ones. If you become lazy, daydream for a while and purposefully stop working at something, your brain has time to do its thing – to make connections between seemingly disparate information and can have highly inspired, novel and creative ideas.
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That’s a terrific explanation, Safar. The being free from self-censorship is ALWAYS a problem for me. Even in my bloomin’ dreams!
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Darn it – you can’t have your dreams censored – that’s no fun at all!!
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I am definitely not lazy, but I tend to gather way too much information before I do things, allowing my curiosity to take up far too much time, time I could be creating. This was an interesting video, Calen. I will have to mull it over more.
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You know, I kind of have a sense of that with me, too. It’s like if I have more info I won’t screw something up. But from what the slide show said, it’s kind of a self-defeating, or self-protecting behavior. Maybe they’re the same thing?
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Yeah, I always think more info is best.. but that slide may be right.. perhaps it is killing the creative flow.. something to think about anyway. I think it might be the same.. self-defeating could be self-protection in our case.. if you never get around to starting a creative project, then you don’t have to worry about criticism later on. Of course, it could have been praise, but for me.. I always fear the criticism and that stifles a lot of my creativity
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I here that!
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