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It happend again today
September 11th, 2011
It happened again today. Or, more accurately, last night. I spent the day working on a project that should have taken only a few hours at most...a relatively simple PHP script that I have used many times in the past. I just wanted to do some customization to the script for a particular client. No matter what I did, I could not get it to work. Minutes turned into hours and, before I knew it, the day was gone.
Frustrated and discouraged, I threw in the towel and went for a swim in our community pool, read a fascinating book (The Social Animal, by David Brooks), had dinner and, exhausted from writing code all day I went to bed early.
Three in the morning, I woke up and I had my answer. I knew what I had to do and how to do it. It was as if the code had written itself.
Creativity is a strange animal. You can't coax it out of its lair but when it is ready, there is no holding back. I have to keep reminding myself that my "creative animal" has a mind of its own. When I can't make it happen, I have to divert my attention elsewhere, and that elsewhere is often doing something else creative but not related in any way to my creative block. I this case, swimming (yes, that can be and is creative) and reading a stimulating book.
Sometimes I visit Low Country Balanced Body where Charity Holland gives me a therapeutic massage, opening my chakras and getting my chi flowing again. Sometimes I listen to music by an artist or band I have never heard before, which is how I "discovered" the bands The Decemberists and Fink. Sometimes I'll pick up the camera and shoot or just go for a walk. During all these activities, the subconscious is working its magic and drawing out the creative animal.
How do you overcome your creative blocks?
Frustrated and discouraged, I threw in the towel and went for a swim in our community pool, read a fascinating book (The Social Animal, by David Brooks), had dinner and, exhausted from writing code all day I went to bed early.
Three in the morning, I woke up and I had my answer. I knew what I had to do and how to do it. It was as if the code had written itself.
Creativity is a strange animal. You can't coax it out of its lair but when it is ready, there is no holding back. I have to keep reminding myself that my "creative animal" has a mind of its own. When I can't make it happen, I have to divert my attention elsewhere, and that elsewhere is often doing something else creative but not related in any way to my creative block. I this case, swimming (yes, that can be and is creative) and reading a stimulating book.
Sometimes I visit Low Country Balanced Body where Charity Holland gives me a therapeutic massage, opening my chakras and getting my chi flowing again. Sometimes I listen to music by an artist or band I have never heard before, which is how I "discovered" the bands The Decemberists and Fink. Sometimes I'll pick up the camera and shoot or just go for a walk. During all these activities, the subconscious is working its magic and drawing out the creative animal.
How do you overcome your creative blocks?
