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Digg it UP - Increase Creativity With Simple Techniques: Creatively Stuck? Use the BoxBreaker!
'Who created religion God or man?' This was the question of the night. My University students from the campus ministry had been out in downtown Orlando talking to people about God. Suddenly people who had gone out to party on a Friday night were intrigued and gathering around for a spiritual discussion. The fury and frenzy this intelligent and enlightening question caused was fun to behold. Instead of speaking up to give
A great way to start doing this is just to state the opposite(s) for each assumption or preconception you have and then consider how these can be true
The time to repay a student loan is quite stressful. Student loans debts are like any other debts, and can have significant influence on how you look at your future. You can reduce the burden of student loans by student loan debt consolidation, especially when the rates of interest fall.Federal student loans have a marked advantage over student loans taken from private sources, such as banks and other financial institu
The finer details of each person’s situation are different, but the overall issue, and the feelings of frustration and helplessness, are shared by all, and something each of us have experienced to some extent in our creative lives.
Often the cause of being “stuck” is remedied by a simple and subtle change in perspective, just looking at the situation in a slightly different way, with new eyes and a fresh perspective.
This is easy to say on the outside looking in, but when we’re in the midst of being stuck it seems like we’ve tried every option possible and there ARE no fresh perspectives.
So next time you feel stuck in your creative life, try using this simple technique:
The BoxBreaker Technique
Choose an issue you’re stuck on, then imagine you have a box in which you put all your assumptions and preconceptions about that issue.
Include every detail, from every aspect, from the more general such as “I don’t have the resources to do this” to “There is no other way”, to more specific assumptions and perceptions about your issue, like “A novel has to be at least 100000 words, be broken into equal chapters, have dialogue and one lead character”.
Once you’ve written these all out and gathered them into your box, it’s time to be a BoxBreaker! The overall aim here is to smash every assumption and preconception you have that limits your thinking and your creative progress in this area.
A great way to start doing this is just to state the opposite(s) for each assumption or preconception you have and then consider how these can be true.
After much nail-biting and pacing, you’ve finally made the decision to join an online dating service. Now you face the seemingly monumental task of writing your personals ad. Sheesh, you say. How do I do this—especially when the personals you’ve taken the time to read through are so, well, let’s be honest, awful. All those abbreviations! All those long paragraphs! All the fluff that a over-sexed seventh-grade boy could
Often the cause of being “stuck” is remedied by a simple and subtle change in perspective, just looking at the situation in a slightly different way, with new eyes and a fresh perspective.
This is easy to say on the outside looking in, but when we’re in the midst of being stuck it seems like we’ve tried every option possible and there ARE no fresh perspectives.
So next time you feel stuck in your creative life, try using this simple technique:
The BoxBreaker Technique
Choose an issue you’re stuck on, then imagine you have a box in which you put all your assumptions and preconceptions about that issue.
Include every detail, from every aspect, from the more general such as “I don’t have the resources to do this” to “There is no other way”, to more specific assumptions and perceptions about your issue, like “A novel has to be at least 100000 words, be broken into equal chapters, have dialogue and one lead character”.
Once you’ve written these all out and gathered them into your box, it’s time to be a BoxBreaker! The overall aim here is to smash every assumption and preconception you have that limits your thinking and your creative progress in this area.
A great way to start doing this is just to state the opposite(s) for each assumption or preconception you have and then consider how these can be true
Home loans are the most sought after loans in the entire world. To take a loan on a home is called a home loan. Some people choose a loan by looking at a number of High Street banks and building societies and finding out what kind of mortgage deals they have. The best tip that one can give regarding home loans is to shop around the market, normally two or three times a day because you never know when you get the desired home
So next time you feel stuck in your creative life, try using this simple technique:
The BoxBreaker Technique
Choose an issue you’re stuck on, then imagine you have a box in which you put all your assumptions and preconceptions about that issue.
Include every detail, from every aspect, from the more general such as “I don’t have the resources to do this” to “There is no other way”, to more specific assumptions and perceptions about your issue, like “A novel has to be at least 100000 words, be broken into equal chapters, have dialogue and one lead character”.
Once you’ve written these all out and gathered them into your box, it’s time to be a BoxBreaker! The overall aim here is to smash every assumption and preconception you have that limits your thinking and your creative progress in this area.
A great way to start doing this is just to state the opposite(s) for each assumption or preconception you have and then consider how these can be true
We can all Learn-and transform our brain in the process. That's the message in this Interview-Part 1 (out of 2) from Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University, Director of UCITE (The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education), and Professor of a Human Learning and The Brain class. Dr. Zull loves to learn. And to teach. And to build connections. He has spent years buildin
Include every detail, from every aspect, from the more general such as “I don’t have the resources to do this” to “There is no other way”, to more specific assumptions and perceptions about your issue, like “A novel has to be at least 100000 words, be broken into equal chapters, have dialogue and one lead character”.
Once you’ve written these all out and gathered them into your box, it’s time to be a BoxBreaker! The overall aim here is to smash every assumption and preconception you have that limits your thinking and your creative progress in this area.
A great way to start doing this is just to state the opposite(s) for each assumption or preconception you have and then consider how these can be true
As if getting into college and finding the right course that would fit your abilities and interests are not enough to make sane people crazy with thinking, one must also be able to choose the right college that would fit your lifestyle, your financial capabilities and your short-term goals in life.It is not enough that you search for the perfect college program. To make the most of your college experience, you must als
A great way to start doing this is just to state the opposite(s) for each assumption or preconception you have and then consider how these can be true.
For example, to use the assumption about the novel above, instead of “A novel has to be at least 100000 words, be broken into chapters and have a lead character” you might write as a starting point: “A novel must be less than 100000 words, have no chapters, no dialogue and no lead character.”
This is the most literal opposite of the original statement, but then think about more radical variations.
For example: “A novel must be less than 5000 words, have unequal chapters, 12 lead characters, only 3 of which engage in dialogue.”
Or: “A novel should have 13 chapters, be written entirely as dialogue, be at least 100 words and feature no characters.”
Use your creativity to be inventive and write as many different opposite variations of each of assumption as you can. Be as wild and extreme and even as ridiculous as you can, and see how your creative mind responds.
One of the most powerful features of the human mind is when it sees a statement written down as true, it instantly looks for way that this could be true, even if at first it seems false, unlikely or even impossible.
So take each new statement you have and write some ideas around how you would approach the issue if it were true. The more you do this, the more easily it’ll flow.
Finally you’ll have a huge list of different ways of approaching your original issue you were stuck on. Pick one or two that really appeal to you, and use them as a st
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