Be Creative - A Quick Guide to Developing Brilliant Ideas & Unlocking Your Creative Potential
Jay Anthony
Language: English
Pages: 23
ISBN: B00TZCIDTE
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Have you fallen into a creative slump? Are you struggling with the development of your ideas? Look no further than BE CREATIVE!, one of the most helpful and comprehensive books you need to set you back on the road to creativity. Open your mind and set your ideas free. It's time to get creative!
aren’t having enough tantrums as an adult to ensure that you get the space you need to be creative. Certainly you should have broadened your vocabulary, which should be useful to you as a creative person. Don’t confuse this, however, with being a more effective communicator. Listen to kids talking and you’ll quickly realise that their limited vocabulary doesn’t stop them tackling very complex concepts. In fact, their use of simple words, slang, gesture, repetitions and the music of their voices
abilities are neglected. So, what can we do to give ‘slow and leisurely’ a fighting chance against ‘fast and furious’? For a start, we can decide to work to real rather than artificial deadlines. We’ve all been subjected to having to complete work for an organisational bigwig, which ‘absolutely must be on my desk first thing on Tuesday’, only to discover that it then languishes unread for days, maybe even weeks. So we should learn to challenge the deadlines that people give us, and in turn make
them. ‘I’ll copy yours if you copy mine…’ There is a long tradition in all areas of creative practice of learning though imitation. ‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’ is an expression often used to describe the way an artist draws from the ideas of talented people who have gone before. And it’s true that if you stand on other people’s shoulders, your view of the world is generally improved. Young writers often set themselves the task of writing in the style of a famous poet or novelist. It
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the rules out yet. Gameplayers have a lot to teach us about exposing the basic working parts of any experience and identifying its creative value. If you can learn to master the ‘rules’ of any given situation, often it means that you can ‘play’ that situation more creatively each time it occurs. Not only are you staying alert to the potential of the moment, you’re also becoming hyper-sensitive to your surroundings. In a way, many people are already playing their lives as games by not only