How to Find Your Creative Zen
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Saved by 22 people (-7 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-10-25
- Edythemighty on 2008-03-21 - Tags Personal , Productivity , interesting , zen
- Gaudette on 2007-12-27 - Tags productivity
- Evangineer on 2007-05-24 - Tags brain , creativity , flow , imported delicious , lifehacks , productivity
- Tayete on 2007-05-21 - Tags 061020
- Marshall on 2007-04-27 - Tags links , schload of indiv bms to sort , to read , working 36
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The premise here is simple: open up a secondary blog or blank word processing document, and commence typing!
As thoughts and ideas pop into your head, record them as fast as you possibly can. Hell, they don’t even have to make sense — in all likelihood, you’ll jump between topics so fast that you’ll look like Frogger trying to cross the road.
Remember, your right brain is the hub of creative thought, so if that side of your brain is controlling the writing, you’ll know because you won’t really be able to perseverate on one aspect of your central topic for too long. In fact, you probably won’t even have a central topic.
Your right brain tends to see the entire picture at once, and as a result, it cannot extrapolate minor details in an orderly fashion. If your writing comes out looking pretty refined and cogent, then that’s a good indicator that your left brain is trying to stick its nose where it doesn’t belong.
The bottom line is that your goal is simply to unleash the creative chaos in the right brain, temporarily freeing it from the suffocating bully that is your left brain.
Your left brain can’t handle the randomized signals coming from your right brain, but the fact is, Zen won’t happen without ‘em!
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