Hit a wall at work? This quick video shares a piece of advice to help you beat creative blocks and generate fresh ideas.
It’s Monday afternoon and maybe that second cup of coffee just isn’t doing what your brain is expecting (although, according to a Harvard neuroscientist, maybe another three will do the trick.)
When you’re hitting a wall at work, with this video New York MagazineOur science suggests it’s time to get into tinker mode. Research on creative problem solving shows that people don’t spend enough time in this stage. The solution? Put it on. People come up with more and better solutions in working on them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwirgy0-c0
As science columnist Sharon Begley writes, tinkering is key. The brain has “leak filters”. When we give ourselves time, disparate items can come together to form different combinations: the essence of creativity. “Short of a personality or brain transplant, you can maximize your inherent creativity through sheer persistence.”
“Original ideas go far,” says Mark Rinko, professor of creativity at the University of Georgia and founder of Journal of Creativity Research Argument, which means that the first 10 uses of string you think of will usually be common, but if you push yourself, the next 10 will include something creative.
Upshot? When it comes to creative blocks, if original ideas come late in the creative process, he explains, we should give ourselves time and space with these “remote” ideas—time for our leak filters and allowing ideas that have never met each other to come together and undergo a kind of alchemy.
