Who gets to create?
"To create is your birthright. You have to realize your birthright to exercise it"
"Okay! But how?"
Here is how:
1 Margins in books:
You ever wondered what are margins in books for? Never. Nice, I will tell you what I think they are for.
They are for - drumroll, please! - writing.
When you read, the string of word pry loose threads in your mind. An idea is but a long, consistent, and wavy thread. A thread of thought, if you like. As you get into the Flow in reading, there comes a point when what unfolds in your mind is far more universal, deep and novel than what the next line reads. That is a universal call for you to write, on the margin. No, Notebook, please.
Don't be a chain-reader.
Sometimes a stimulating phrase, for example, makes you, all of a sudden, pause. You are reading the whole book for those few moments, but in your frenzy you jump to the next line, let the experience pass you by without savoring it, so that you could quickly get to the end and read the next book (and brag to a friend). And your margins are as clean as your mind at the end of the book, except of course for some only real smudges.
So, take home point, is to pause and ponder and then write on the margins.
It is one of the best methods I know that helps me take note, remember, collect ideas, (or seeds or pollen or dots. Choose your pic.)
A book has only one idea, but every good line read closely can inspire a million. And also, This is from Naval, You don't have to read every chapter or page. You don't read every blog entry of your fav blogger, after all?
Be choosy in what you collect.
2. Move
Use your legs, walk. Sprint and let your mind wander.
Jiggle your head so that you have a better recipe for thoughts. And it is only when your thoughts jumble, new, wild, unthought-of ideas can form.
I shake up things in my mind ergo I am.
Wendy Suzuki of New York University has discovered and then demonstrated how physical movement give birth to new neurons. You know what that means, you get smarter as you move around.
Go out!
Seek Novelty!
Change routines. Change places.
New places inspire fresh thoughts.
Nature is rich with muse, brimmed with inspiration and sated with abundance.
3. Curiosity is your mind's Nectar
Nectar, just in case, (a) is a sugary fluid that encourages pollination in flowers. (b) drink of Greek gods.
I use it as a metaphor for curiosity. The juice in mind.
Books are like bees. They carry pollens of ideas stick all over their bodies. Your mind is stigma, you can catch as many pollens as much juice of curiosity you secrete.
And when an idea comes to you, take action.
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Rick Rubin believes ideas strike us when it is their time. He has seen time and time again, that he has an idea and he would not execute on it, and then someone else would. If you have not experienced this, just wait around with a new idea enough. As for me, well, I have lost enough ideas to people to ignore Rubin.
Be surprised by the mundane.
Document inconsequential and silly things. Keep things just for or as keepsake.
Ask questions out of curiosity?
Above all, Ask yourself.
And then listen to yourself as if it is someone who knows better than you, which he is. Or she for that matter.
4. Rick's Act
Three biggest sources to tune in for inspiration from the universe.
One of it has to work for you.
Bonus from Rick: Don't Take Yourself Seriously.
5. Rest.
Take a nap, a break whatever.
Just go off mind.
Your mind is like your partner it needs some time alone and so do you.
Don't be Clingy.
As they say: Downtime is to mind what sleep is to body.
A little secret as you go: Eureka happens when you take a break.
Now, go take a break, just a little.
By the way:
Book of the Week:
Creative Act: a way of being by Rick Rubin.
Metahphor: Nectar as Curiosity.
Word of the week: Nexting.
Nexting: Next time.
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