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Sat 8 Apr, 2017 12:38 pm
For one thing, you can't be afraid of making mistakes or being wrong. You can't be too critical. Being wrong, if you can admit it, is an opportunity to learn. I think creativity feeds on a spontaneous flow of ideas, mistakes included. The more mistakes you make and cast them aside, the more creative you are .
@coluber2001,
Col ur moinker soundsd familiar but still aren't you a newsomer
Or is it that they delete recent posts
See what happens to your head in old age
Mine anyway
@dalehileman,
Look up his profile. He has been here a long while.
@dalehileman,
I am a refugee from abuzz. I haven't been participating much in the past because I don't have a computer and so I have to go to the library once a week to use their computer . But now I have a cell phone, and as big a hassle as it is I still contribute more.
Now getting back to the question: how do we develop a creative mind? does sexual release help or a lack of sexual release? How about stimulants like coffee,? Remember the ads on television? They would bring on celebrities who are creative and and they would say,, "I am a coffee a achiever." I remember Kurt Vonnegut doing that once.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
@layman,
Or as Machiavelli observed, "Men are industrious only out of necessity"
@georgeob1,
the way we always said it was "without deadlines, nothing would get done"
@ossobucotemp,
Eighteen yrs; well, Osso, mebbe 12
@coluber2001,
Quote:does sexual release help
I'd suppose it relieves the wandering mind
By creative mind I'm really talking about an open, free-flowing mind. You can be creative without actually executing something.
Maybe it would be easier to state ways to not have a creative mind. Religiously adhere and conform to axioms you learned in childhood. Be sensitive to criticism, especially your own criticism, because you are afraid of disapproval or failure.
@coluber2001,
My idea of creativity involves, first, play. Play not as in the childhood playground so much but in the larger sense. We use to talk about this on the art threads. I probably was the one that brought it up (or was I), but those threads are worth a read.
@ossobucotemp,
Okay, so what do you mean by play in the larger sense?
@coluber2001,
like a child, pushing a block, where will it go? As a painter, I almost always started my paintings on the wild side, streaks of stuff, and then followed my inclinations, which mostly tightened up, sort of average to a viewer, but not always.
What do I mean? Toying.
@ossobucotemp,
playing can also be investigation
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