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Enough Blocks I Could Build a Pyramid

Creativity Challenge 1999 #43

Anxiety. Frustration. Loneliness. Too much to do. Too little to do.

Every day we each can experience such "Creative Block(s)". Their causes seem to be many. Highly recognized creative people have often written in their journals or autobiographies about experiencing creative blocks ranging from a few hours to days to months to years. Often reading through journals and autobiographies we can discover how such people have gotten past their blocks. James Adams devoted much of his book CREATIVE BLOCKBUSTING to this topic many years ago. If creative blocks are a problem for you I highly recommend you buy your own copy and read it often.

This week focus on discovering and collecting your blocks, their sources, their causes. Also collect other people's blocks.

On Monday spend 10-15 minutes listing creative blocks you have experienced. Then choose one and recall how you got past it. Then generate a list of 6 to 12 ways you might get past the same block the next time it occurs.

On Tuesday generate a list of the creative blocks your family have experienced. Then ask one of them to recall how they got past it. Then generate a list of 6 to 12 ways how you might get past the same block the next time it occurs for you.

On Wednesday ask 6 fellow workers for their creative blocks. Then ask them to describe how they got past one of them. Then generate a list of 6 to 12 ways you might get past the same block the next time it occurs for you.

On Thursday ask 6 clients, customers or other people you normally see in your work day for their creative blocks. Then choose one and recall how you got past it. Then generate a list of 6 to 12 ways you might get past the same block the next time it occurs for you.

On Friday ask 6 people you happen to meet for the first time for their creative blocks. Ask them how they got past one of their's. Then generate a list of 6 to 12 ways you might get past the same block the next time it occurs for you.

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For those of you who work or live alone use your creative imagination to substitute other groups of people for family members, co-workers, customers, clients. If you happen to live on a deserted island totally alone you might ask the animals and plants, imaginary people, people you have read about, people from your past, people you may meet some day and pretend they answered you.

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Very few people who must work 5 or more days a week at a job have the option that many artists have written about of "waiting for their muse to return". Most working people each work day need to strive to keep up the level of their creativeness. Developing our own collection of Block Busting techniques will be beneficial today, tomorrow and beyond.

As you do this Challenge keep notes of how you feel while you are doing it.

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