Suspend Reality
We live in a real world, but creativity thrives in imagination and possibility.
When we’re able to suspend reality and cut off the voices that try to rationalize our creativity, we’ll find new creative roads to travel. Without reality, we see new possibilities.
Dream in Metaphors
Metaphors are ways to articulate story in more accessible ways.
People may not remember data, but they remember stories. When we share our ideas in metaphors, we learn to be more creative and more complete in creating our thought processes.
Get Back Up
Failure provides the opportunity to try again. When we try again, we have a chance to be more audacious, more creative, and more gritty with how we create.
Leveraging fear and failure makes us better than we could dream possible. Failing also allows us to ask questions and remove data that doesn’t work from the equation.
Press Pause
Create and work hard…then press pause. Step away. Give creativity room to breathe. Then come back.
The chance to get away from our creative process, idea, or project will allow us to come back and see it in a new light. It will give us the chance to identify areas or elements we may have missed. Pressing pause is the least attractive option because it forces us to beat deadlines and create margin. But when it does, it makes us so much better.
Do you employ any of these exercises in your life? Are there any other exercises you might add to the list?
