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While flipping through my soon-to-be-retired "Giant Book of To-Do", I noticed I had copied down a list I'd seen on Facebook about being creative. I'm sure I intended to do something with it, and... now seems as good a time as any.
#1 - Make Lists
(see list)
How... is this what they call meta? A list telling you the importance of lists? I don't know. But anyway, making lists seems the very antithesis of being creative. You know, logical list-makers on one side, wildly scribbling creative artistic types on the other.
Unless you're making a creative list? In which case you're just being creative, so they might as well sat that to be creative, you should just... be creative. I have seen some fairly creative (intentionally or not) grocery lists. And my to-do list has often been strange ("buy correct size knitting needles for anus" - hey, I'm knitting a digestive tract, I don't know where your mind is!) but I don't know that I'd call it creative.
Sorry, I just don't see this one. List are great, and lovely, and occasionally overwhelming (in which case they're a hindrance) but I've never really felt they helped me be creative. They help you remember and stay on track and get organized, but creativity... is rarely planned. My most creative moments are completely out of the blue and almost entirely at the most inconvenient times.
If rule #2 is "Schedule time to be creative" I'm giving up now.
#1 - Make Lists
(see list)
How... is this what they call meta? A list telling you the importance of lists? I don't know. But anyway, making lists seems the very antithesis of being creative. You know, logical list-makers on one side, wildly scribbling creative artistic types on the other.
Unless you're making a creative list? In which case you're just being creative, so they might as well sat that to be creative, you should just... be creative. I have seen some fairly creative (intentionally or not) grocery lists. And my to-do list has often been strange ("buy correct size knitting needles for anus" - hey, I'm knitting a digestive tract, I don't know where your mind is!) but I don't know that I'd call it creative.
Sorry, I just don't see this one. List are great, and lovely, and occasionally overwhelming (in which case they're a hindrance) but I've never really felt they helped me be creative. They help you remember and stay on track and get organized, but creativity... is rarely planned. My most creative moments are completely out of the blue and almost entirely at the most inconvenient times.
If rule #2 is "Schedule time to be creative" I'm giving up now.